High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests

SA Parks, LM Holsinger, MH Panunto… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire
behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type …

Identifying key drivers of wildfires in the contiguous US using machine learning and game theory interpretation

SSC Wang, Y Qian, LR Leung, Y Zhang - Earth's future, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the complex interrelationships between wildfire and its environmental and
anthropogenic controls is crucial for wildfire modeling and management. Although machine …

Influence of topography and fuels on fire refugia probability under varying fire weather conditions in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA

GW Meigs, CJ Dunn, SA Parks… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Fire refugia—locations that burn less severely or less frequently than surrounding areas—
support late-successional and old-growth forest structure and function. This study …

The development and implementation of a human-caused wildland fire occurrence prediction system for the province of Ontario, Canada

DG Woolford, DL Martell, CB McFayden… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
We describe the development and implementation of an operational human-caused
wildland fire occurrence prediction (FOP) system in the province of Ontario, Canada. A suite …

Contrasting effects of future wildfire and forest management scenarios on a fire excluded western US landscape

AA Ager, AMG Barros, MA Day - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Context Restoring wide areas of fire excluded western US landscapes to fuel limited, fire
resilient systems where fires self-regulate and burn with low or mixed severity will require …

“Us versus Them;” Local Social Fragmentation and Its Potential Effects on Building Pathways to Adapting to Wildfire

M Billings, M Carroll, T Paveglio, K Whitman - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
As the need for wildfire adaptation for human populations in the wildland-urban interface
(WUI) intensifies in the face of changes that have increased the number of wildfires that …

What drives low-severity fire in the southwestern USA?

SA Parks, SZ Dobrowski, MH Panunto - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Many dry conifer forests in the southwestern USA and elsewhere historically (prior to the late
1800's) experienced fairly frequent surface fire at intervals ranging from roughly five to 30 …

Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States

JT Abatzoglou, DJ McEvoy, NJ Nauslar… - Atmospheric Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing complexity and impacts of fire seasons in the United States have prompted
efforts to improve early warning systems for wildland fire management. Outlooks of potential …

Bushfire simulators and analysis in Australia: insights into an emerging sociotechnical practice

T Neale, D May - Environmental Hazards, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The present context of escalating environmental risks places increased pressure and
importance on our technical ability to predict and mitigate the potential consequences and …

[HTML][HTML] Chilean wildfires: probabilistic prediction, emergency response, and public communication

HF Dacre, BR Crawford… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Chilean Wildfires: Probabilistic Prediction, Emergency Response, and Public
Communication in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 99 Issue 11 (2018) …