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Lynch, Evans
Wildfire is part of the landscape in the Southwest. It can be a threat to lives and property, but it is also crucial to maintaining healthy ecosystems. Forests in the Southwest are adapted to fire and many trees can easily survive low-intensity…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Demange, Gabrel, Haddad, Murat
The location of shelters in different areas threatened by wildfires is one of the possible ways to reduce fatalities in a context of an increasing number of catastrophic and severe wildfires. These shelters will enable the population in the area to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Carswell, Haffey, Allen
Part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium.
There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Assessing risk in a postfire landscape: are currently available tools good for the local land owner?
Driscoll, FriggensWildfires and events that follow such as flooding and erosion are natural disturbances in many ecosystems. However, when these types of postfire events threaten life, property, and resources they become a concern for resource managers, communities,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Allbee, Krasilovsky
Over a century of fire exclusion and suppression has led to negative impacts for fire-adapted ecosystems across New Mexico through the increasing prevalence of uncharacteristically large and severe fires that threaten lives, property, forests,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem extends across a large portion of the Western United States. Affected by multiple stressors, including interactions among fire, exotic plant invasions, and human land uses, this ecosystem has experienced…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Evers, Ager, Nielsen-Pincus, Palaiologou, Bunzel
Risk management typologies and their resulting archetypes can structure the many social and biophysical drivers of community wildfire risk into a set number of strategies to build community resilience. Existing typologies omit key factors that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Li, Cova, Dennison
Wildfire evacuation triggers refer to prominent geographic features used in wildfire evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation warning is issued to the communities or firefighters in the path of the fire. The existing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
McLennan, Ryan, Bearman, Toh
Wildfires pose a serious threat to life in many countries. For police, fire and emergency services authorities in most jurisdictions in North America and Australia evacuation is now the option that is preferred overwhelmingly. Wildfire evacuation…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Mueller
Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are…
Year: 2019
Type: Media