Forested environments are subject to large and high intensity unplanned fire events, owing
to, among other factors, the high quantity and complex structure of fuel in these …

Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as
the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The …

Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

Tens of thousands of structures and hundreds of human lives have been lost in recent fire
events throughout California. Given the potential for these types of wildfires to continue, the …

Surface fuel information is an essential input for models of fire behaviour and fire effects.
However, spatially explicit, continuous information on surface fuel loads and fuelbed depth …

The suggestion has been made within the wildland fire community that the rate of spread in
the upper portion of the fire danger spectrum is largely independent of the physical fuel …

Organization of successful wildfire prevention and suppression require detailed information
on ignition causes, size distributions and relations to weather. From a large and highly …

Despite major advances in numerical weather prediction, few resources exist to forecast
wildland fire danger conditions to support operational fire management decisions and …

Climate and natural vegetation dynamics are key drivers of global vegetation fire, but
anthropogenic burning now prevails over vast areas of the planet. Fire regime classification …

Despite the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of wildfires, little attention has been paid
to the spatiotemporal patterns of nighttime fire activity across the conterminous United States …