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Assessing risk in a postfire landscape: are currently available tools good for the local land owner?
Driscoll, Friggens
Wildfires 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

Archetypes of community wildfire exposure from national forests of the western US
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

Setting wildfire evacuation triggers by coupling fire and traffic simulation models: a spatiotemporal GIS approach
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

Should we leave now? Behavioral factors in evacuation under wildfire threat
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

Future changes in fire weather, spring droughts, and false springs across U.S. National Forests and Grasslands
Martinuzzi, Allstadt, Pidgeon, Flather, Jolly, Radeloff
Public lands provide many ecosystem services and support diverse plant and animal communities. In order to provide these benefits in the future, land managers and policy makers need information about future climate change and its potential effects.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

An assessment of research needs related to wildland firefighter safety - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Jolly, Butler, Page, Freeborn
Wildland firefighters in the United States (US) are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs in America’s wildlands. Although the threats posed by vehicle accidents, aircraft mishaps and heart attacks claim the most lives (Figure…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Wildland urban interface fire operational requirements and capability analysis
Berlin, Hieb
The project team identified three overarching conclusions that represent consistent themes captured throughout the course of the TTXs a n d expert engagements. These conclusions framed the development of key findings and more detailed analysis…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Bats, Fire, and the Endangered Species Act
Allison
Carrie Allison's (US Fish and Wildlife Service) presentation to the 2019 Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference in State College, PA.
Year: 2019
Type: Media

A review of US wildland firefighter entrapments: trends, important environmental factors and research needs
Page, Freeborn, Butler, Jolly
Wildland firefighters in the United States are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs. Although vehicle accidents and aircraft mishaps claim the most lives, situations where firefighters are caught in a life-threatening, fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Wildfires alter forest watersheds and threaten drinking water quality
Hohner, Rhoades, Wilkerson, Rosario-Ortiz
Wildfires are a natural part of most forest ecosystems, but due to changing climatic and environmental conditions, they have become larger, more severe, and potentially more damaging. Forested watersheds vulnerable to wildfire serve as drinking…
Year: 2019
Type: Document