Although Mediterranean fires are primarily managed using a top-down approach (Aguilar and Montiel2011; Tedim et al.2016), the cascading impacts of climate and social changes are often felt most at a local level. Thus, the decisions regarding wildland fire adaptations need to be considered legitim...
projected fire future changes from other points of view (occurrence of very large fires, wildfire potential, etc.), finding also a general increase of fire severity by the end of the century in some of these Te-dhs fire regions. The interannual recurrence of fire-prone conditions will ...
These impacts are likely to worsen as fires in the WUI are anticipated to increase due to ongoing pressures for urban housing expansion, accumulation of biomass from historical fire exclusion practices, and greater fire danger days and extreme weather conditions due to climate change (Thompson et ...
We then characterized annual area burned and the likelihood that wildfires would reach a nearby wildland-urban interface (WUI) defense zone. Early-season fires burned longer and grew larger than late-season fires, and thus had a higher likelihood of reaching the WUI zone (3 % of May fires ...
We investigate interactions between successive naturally occurring fires, and assess to what extent the environments in which fires burn influence these in
fire Article A Historical Perspective to Inform Strategic Planning for 2020 End-of-Year Wildland Fire Response Efforts Erin J. Belval 1,* , Karen C. Short 2, Crystal S. Stonesifer 3 and David E. Calkin 3 1 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Human Dimensions Science ...
Rather, we aim to provide insight to, or a proof of concept of, an approach which has many challenges, but which also holds considerable potential for both providing more information to forest managers and providing a way for members of communities that are vulnerable to forest fires to ...
Introduction Wildland/forest fires are some of the critical natural hazards that pose a significant threat to the communities located in the vicinity of forested/vegetated areas around the world [1–3]. These fires, in fact, have an enormous impact on the urban/built environment adjacent to the...
This memory effect in fuel data, as one of the model inputs, can persist for several years and continuously influence future fire behavior in the years following historical fires. Regular updates to fuel data would aid the model in capturing and adapting to this memory effect in its fuel ...
However, as scientists and managers seek knowledge of fire behavior in conditions that extend beyond the limits of our current empirical models and prior experiences, we will need new tools that foster a more mechanistic understanding of the processes driving fire dynamics (i.e., how fires start...