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Post-Wildfire Debris Flows
Post-wildfire debris flows pose severe hazards to communities and infrastructure near and within recently burned mountainous terrain. Intense heat of...
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Geospatial technologies for estimating post-wildfire severity through satellite imagery and vegetation types: a case study of the Gangneung Wildfire, South Korea
Wildfires have caused natural environmental damage that has contributed to deforestation, consequently demonstrating a significant influence on...
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Post-wildfire debris-flow runout map** using geospatial analysis
Post-wildfire debris flows are a significant natural hazard that is becoming more prevalent because of climate change and increasing populations in...
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Estimating wildfire potential in Taiwan under different climate change scenarios
Wildfires are a significant environmental hazard that pose threats to ecosystems, human livelihoods, and infrastructure. The impact of climate change...
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Wildfire
Given the characteristics of a wildfire, perhaps the word “hellfire” is more appropriate. With flame heights of well over 150 feet and temperatures...
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Assessing directional vulnerability to wildfire
Wildfires spread along trajectories set by a coincident wind direction. Despite the highly directional nature of wildfire threats to public safety,...
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Wildfire susceptibility prediction using a multisource and spatiotemporal cooperative approach
Wildfire is one of the natural hazards that poses threats to the safety of forest ecological environment. It is very important to predict wildfire...
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Wildfire Impact Analysis and Spread Dynamics Estimation on Satellite Images Using Deep Learning
Wildfires are a natural disaster that results in significant harm and catastrophic destruction. Forest areas tend to be more prone to the devastating...
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Exploring support and opposition to regulatory approaches for wildfire risk management: requirements, voluntary actions, and tailored local action
Formal requirements of wildfire mitigation on private properties are increasingly being considered as one avenue for “scaling up” wildfire management...
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The geography of social vulnerability and wildfire occurrence (1984–2018) in the conterminous USA
Wildfire is increasing in frequency, extent, and severity in many parts of the USA. Considering the unequal burden of natural hazards on socially...
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Comparing ground-based lightning detection networks near wildfire points-of-origin
Lightning detection and attribution to wildfire ignitions is a critical component of fire management worldwide to both reduce hazards of wildfire to...
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Space-based observation of early summer wildfire event and its environmental proxies during 2021 in Eastern Peninsular India
Wildfires in the Indian peninsula are usually not very often; however, during early summer in 2021, the eastern peninsular region experienced...
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Structural Measures for Wildfire Risk Reduction in Informal Contexts in Chile
In this chapter, we aim to contribute practical and applied understandings of structural measures implemented for wildfire disaster risk reduction...
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Using FlamMap to assess wildfire behavior in Bohemian Switzerland National Park
The 2022 summer fire in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park (BSNP) is the largest in the 30-year recorded history of the Czech Republic, with an...
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Building wildland–urban interface zone resilience through performance-based wildfire engineering. A holistic theoretical framework
In recent years, a worldwide expansion in the frequency of large, uncontrolled, and catastrophic wildfire events has occurred, creating drastic...
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Map** wildfire ignition probability and predictor sensitivity with ensemble-based machine learning
Wildfire ignition models can help in identifying risk factors and map** high-risk areas, which addresses an urgent issue as wildfires become...
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Comparing public and scientific extreme event attribution to climate change
Extreme event attribution is an active area of scientific research, but public attribution of extreme events to climate change is not well understood...
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Rapid transformation of wildfire emissions to harmful background aerosol
Wildfires are a significant source of organic aerosol during summer, with major impacts on air quality and climate. However, studies in Europe...
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Understanding homeowner proactive actions for managing wildfire risks
Wildfires have become increasing threats to residents, built environments, and ecosystems in the USA. Individual responsibility plays an important...
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The socioeconomic impact of a wildfire based on farmers’ perception: a case study for the island of Thassos
Nowadays, wildfires have become a common natural disaster as a result of climate change, closely related to uncontrolled anthropogenic interventions,...
