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Vaillant, Ager
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analysis can provide tremendous insight to land managers in defining both the benefits and potential impacts of fuel treatments in the context of land management goals and public expectations. ArcFuels is a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Bar-Massada, Radeloff, Stewart
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on the WUI has been focused on wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there is a need to quantify the extent of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Minas, Hearne, Martell
Elevated fuel loads are contributing to an increase in the occurrence of, and area burned by, severe wildfires in many regions across the globe. In an attempt to reverse this trend, fire and land management agencies are investing in extensive fuel…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Steinberg
The Firewise Communities program of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a key element of the holistic fire adapted communities strategy to involve all stakeholders in the use of valuable mitigation tools to reduce risk from wildfire.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Leschak
A fire adapted community could be defined as a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
In the past two decades, a rapid escalation of extreme wildfire behavior, accompanied by significant increases in risk to responders and citizens, home and property losses, costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have been observed. In the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Halofsky, Hart, Hemstrom, Halofsky, Johnson
Information on the effects of management activities such as fuel reduction treatments and of processes such as vegetation growth and disturbance on fire hazard can help land managers prioritize treatments across a landscape to best meet management…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Waltz, Stoddard, Kalies, Springer, Huffman, Sánchez Meador
Landscape-scale wildfire has occurred in higher frequencies across the planet. Fuel reduction treatments to fire-adapted systems have been shown to reduce the impact to human values-at-risk. However, few studies have examined if these treatments…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Wildfires are increasingly expensive and dangerous, burning homes, and consuming agency budgets. A large portion of the costs and risks are related to the need to defend private homes next to federal lands. Attempts to mitigate include voluntary…
Year: 2014
Type: Document