This paper gives an overview of fire in the wildland-urban interface.
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Person: Weise, Wotton
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Effective mitigation of external fires on structures can be achieved flexibly, economically, and aesthetically by (1) preventing large-area ignition on structures by avoiding close proximity of burning vegetation; and (2) stopping flame travel from...
Person: Dietenberger
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs....
Person: Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator (WFDS) extends the fire dynamics simulator (FDS), which has been developed for structural fires, to account for the presence of terrain and/or vegetation and the spread of fires through vegetation....
Person: Mell
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
In an effort to quantify structure ignition mechanisms during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, rapidly deployable instrumentation packages were developed. For a structure under a WUI fire attack, the packages are designed to: (1) provide...
Person: Manzello, Park, Cleary
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
To provide critical spotting information to fire managers and the developers of operational wildfire behavior models, a physics-based spotting model has been developed and used to characterize potential spotting hazard in complex wildland urban...
Person: Linn, Sieg, Koo, Winterkamp
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reducing risk of loss due to wildfire in enhanced when forest fuels surrounding communities and individual structures are properly managed and are a part of the FireSmart concept. This report describes two test burns where a crown fire was burned into...
Person: Schroeder
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical...
Person: Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
To provide critical spotting information to fire managers and the developers of operational wildfire behavior models, a physics-based spotting model will be developed and used to characterize potential spotting hazard in complex wildland urban...
Person: Linn, Koo, Edminster, Perry
Year: 2010
Resource Group: Project
Source: FRAMES