The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Paveglio, Brenkert-Smith, Hall, Smith
There is no uniform means for assessing social impact from wildland fires beyond statistics such as home loss, suppression costs and the number of residents evacuated. In this paper we argue for and provide a more comprehensive set of considerations for gauging social impact…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mueller, Mell, Simeoni
Large eddy simulation (LES) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulators have obtained increasing attention in the wildland fire research community, as these tools allow the inclusion of important driving physics. However, due to the complexity of the models, individual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeffrey
From the text ... 'As cities grow in population, they tend to expand outward into formerly undeveloped wildland areas. Since much of the expansion on the urban edge consists of residential properties, an increasing number of newer homes are located in close proximity to natural…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexandre, Mockrin, Stewart, Hammer, Radeloff
The number of wildland-urban interface communities affected by wildfire is increasing, and both wildfire suppression and losses are costly. However, little is known about post-wildfire response by homeowners and communities after buildings are lost. Our goal was to characterise…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
From the text ... 'The wildland/urban inferface (WUI) is a geographic location where structures and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-fire triangle' -- likely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butry, Prestemon, Thomas
The number of smoking-caused wildfires has been falling nationwide. In national forests in 2011, smoking-caused wildfires represented only 10% of their 1980 level. No other cause of wildfire has experienced this level of decline. For 12 states, we evaluate the rate of smoking-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sutphen
From the text ... 'More than 80 percent of all wildfires in Florida occur within 1 mile of wildland-urban inferface (WUI) areas. Fires in WUI areas often present challenges for fire response, suppression, and public safety, in part because wildfire suppression may involve…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stein, Menakis, Carr, Comas, Stewart, Cleveland, Bramwell, Radeloff
From the text ... 'Fire historically has played a fundamental ecological role in many of America's wildland areas. However, the increasing number of homes in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), associated impacts on lives and property from wildfire, and escalating costs of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mowery, Prudhomme
From the text ... 'A fire adapted community accepts wildfire as part of the natural landscape and takes responsibility for its risk. Community members understand the risk and have proactively implemented collaborative mitigation actions to successfully survive fire. Those…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The performance of homes in three traditionally built communities and that of three master planned communities, employing the concept known as 'shelter-in-place,' was examined. The shelter-in-place communities performed much better with significantly fewer…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deaton
From the text ... 'Engaging in a fire-preparedness dialogue is particularly important for the fire departments because national studies have shown the firefighters are uniquely respected in their communities and can project a trusted voice to the public-preparedness appeal.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Butry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined in terms of housing density and proximity to wildlands, yet its relevance seems to be only in conjunction with wildland fire threats. The objective of this paper is to (1) identify the WUI areas threatened from wildfire during the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With more people than ever living in the vicinity of the wildland-urban interface, communicating wildland fire management activities and building trust with the public is paramount for safety. Although the time and resources it takes to build and maintain the public's trust may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior in these fuel types. Recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Cohen, Finney, Thompson
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not without…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drummond, Peterson
Join Firewise as we hear from Firewise leaders about how to host successful Firewise Community Days. You’ll learn why Firewise requires and collects this information, how to tell your community’s story, and the value in sharing this achievement. Courtney Peterson, Wildfire…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Meldrum, Champ, Brenkert-Smith, Warziniack, Barth, Falk
Research across a variety of risk domains finds that the risk perceptions of professionals and the public differ. Such risk perception gaps occur if professionals and the public understand individual risk factors differently or if they aggregate risk factors into overall risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wells
This “Ask an Expert” workshop will see Lt. Tim Weaver of the Rapid City, South Dakota, Fire Department share lessons learned for both the homeowner and local agency in Firewise and Fire Adapted Community concept efforts. He will share his experience in gaining residential trust…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Diaz
As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hodges, Luloff, Finley
For generations, the public was told that fire destroys forests and many of its associated values (e.g., timber, wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, ecosystem services). Recently, the science of fire prevention and fuel treatments has experienced renewed and enhanced support…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
We've seen it on the news, extreme fire behavior in areas where wildlands meet rural developments, an area called the wildland-urban interface (WUI). At first look all you see are buildings burnt to the ground - but look again. Those piles of ash that were once a family home are…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moritz, Batllori, Bradstock, Gill, Handmer, Hessburg, Leonard, McCaffrey, Odion, Schoennagel, Syphard
The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions - the lives and homes lost, the expense of suppression and the damage to ecosystem services - necessitate a more sustainable coexistence with wildfire. Climate change and continued development on fire-prone landscapes will only…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES