Welcome to the Northwest Fire Portal

The Northwest Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to the northwestern contiguous United States. Our goal is to provide "one-stop shopping" for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and manage fire and fuels on lands in the Northwest. Content within this portal may also be relevant to the temperate forests of southwestern Canada. Much of the Northwest-related content was originally compiled through the FIREHouse project (the Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse), funded by the Joint Fire Science Program.

The Northwest Fire Science Consortium (NWFSC) is a comprehensive fire science delivery system designed to enhance the exchange of existing fire science and technologies throughout the region, encourage fire and land management stakeholders to evaluate and adopt relevant fire science, and increase awareness of researchers about the wildfire science needs of stakeholders. The NWFSC recognizes the diversity of fire science users and offers unique opportunities to increase cross disciplinary collaboration and facilitate the delivery of fire science to diverse stakeholders and serve the diversity of needs in the Pacific Northwest. Project funding has been provided by the Joint Fire Science Program.