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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mankame, Shotorban
Spot fires created by wind–carrying firebrands are common in wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. Firebrand deposition over cubic blocks in tandem and parallel arrangements representing simplified nearby small structures in WUI was studied. The flow turbulence was modeled by …
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Su, Xie, Xu, Liu, Li
Background: Correct evaluation of safe heat exposure distance (SHED) in wildland fire environments improves the safety and efficiency of firefighting operation. However, there is a lack of standard test method for the SHED, let alone the influencing factors of the SHED.
Aims:…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Granberg, Shen, Pearson, Verble
Background: Wildland firefighters have physically and psychologically demanding jobs that can result in social, economic and health-related stress. Previous studies have examined the physiological and physical effects of a career in wildland fire, but fewer studies have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hawkins, Picardi, Donnell, Ireland
Wildfires are a common problem in many areas of the world with often catastrophic consequences. A number of systems have been created to provide early warnings of wildfires, including those that use satellite data to detect fires. The increased availability of small satellites,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zema, Parhizkar, Plaza-Álvarez, Xu, Lucas-Borja
Prescribed fire is a viable practice to reduce the wildfire risk in forests, but its application may lead to increased surface runoff and soil erosion. Several hydrological and erosive models have been proposed and evaluated to predict the changes in soil hydrology and erosion…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Schmidt, Varvak, Ziel
The boreal forest of northwestern North America covers an extensive area, contains vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation and soil, and is characterized by extensive wildfires. Catastrophic crown fires in these forests are fueled predominantly by only two evergreen needle-leaf…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saxena, Dubey, Yaghoobian
Fuel ignition potential is one of the primary drivers influencing the extent of damage in wildland and wildland-urban interface fires and it is a decisive factor in planning prescribed fires. Determining the susceptibility of fuels, which vary spatially and temporally, to fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ullah, Hussain, Khan, Ali, Ali, Choi
Background: Mobile ad hoc networks have piqued researchers’ interest in various applications, including forest fire detection. Because of the massive losses caused by this disaster, forest fires necessitate regular monitoring, good communication, and technology. As a result,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pietruszka, Young, Short, St. Denis, Thompson, Calkin
Background: Current guidance for implementation of United States federal wildland fire policy charges agencies with restoring and maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems while limiting the extent of wildfires that threaten life and property, weighed against the risks posed to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Barrett
[Executive Summary] Wildfire risk has many dimensions – for example, fires can impact ecosystems and wildlife, and smoke increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, this research report is narrowly focused on the effectiveness of specific governmental policies to reduce risk to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Standards for Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface establishes the standards for understanding and implementation of concepts, issues, and best practices to increase community fire adaptation. This publication is designed to:
Support common understanding.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Environment Mapping System (FEMS) is a new wildland fire IT application which will support wildland fire preparedness and decision-making with better access to fire environment datasets and online analysis tools. FEMS will support a core principle of the Cohesive…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Christison, Sol, Gurney, Dumke
Introduction: Wildland firefighters (WLFFs) must undergo a 2-wk critical training (CT) period prior to deployment to the field. This stress may result in clinical risks, including severe muscle damage and rhabdomyolysis. We aimed to document the effects of WLFFs’ CT on…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke from wildfires in the United States is adversely affecting air quality and potentially putting more people at health risk from smoke exposure. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the USDA Forest Service, and other federal, state and community agencies…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Fuels Data is designed for wildland management practitioners tasked with collecting surface fuels measurements in the field It automatically performs calculations and table lookups. Photos and data are linked together, which eliminates the need to diligently sequence reference…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The LANDFIRE (LF) 2022 Update represents another step in moving towards an annual update. This update is the first time in LANDFIRE history in which disturbances from the year before are represented in current year products.
LF 2022 includes adjustments to vegetation and fuels…
Year: 2023
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Charnley, Davis, Schelhas
The USDA Forest Service received $5.447 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021, providing substantial funding to support implementation of the agency’s 2022 Wildfire Crisis Strategy between fiscal years 2022 and 2026. This article examines how the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jose, Agarwal, Zhuang
In the current century, wildfires have shown an increasing trend, causing a huge amount of direct and indirect losses in society. Different methods and efforts have been employed to reduce the frequency and intensity of the damages, one of which is implementing prescribed fires…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map provides information that you can use to help protect your health from wildfire smoke. Use this map to see:
Current particle pollution air quality information for your location;
Fire locations and smoke plumes;
Smoke Forecast Outlooks, where…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The overarching goal of the Coalition is to establish and maintain a viable coalition of prescribed fire councils by providing encouragement, education, and leadership for the use of prescribed fire across the United States.
The concept of forming a Coalition of Prescribed Fire…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Drought Portal is the U.S. government’s authoritative drought information website. It provides a one-stop shop for data, decision-support products, resources, and information on drought—from drought monitoring and prediction, to planning and preparedness, to applied…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES