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Louisville Wildfire and Conflagration Risk Assessment

“The Louisville Fire Protection District teamed up with the Ember Alliance to improve our understanding of fire behavior in the urban and suburban environments. The report includes details about the modeling and risk measures assessed all to help identify actionable methods to reduce risk of structure ignition. “ Read HERE
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Improving understandings of public experiences with prescribed fire in the wildland–urban interface: a co-produced rapid survey approach

“This study sought to determine whether small-scale, time-sensitive surveying techniques are a suitable methodological approach for capturing public responses to individual prescribed fires in the WUI and informing local prescribed fire management activities.” Read HERE
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Invest in People and Community Resilience Will Follow

“The goal: to advance California’s beneficial fire goals by investing in people and community-based organizations. As leaders within the PBA movement, WRTC’s fire team combined grant management with technical expertise in beneficial fire and organizational development, ensuring efficient and strategic use of funds. “ Read HERE
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Learning to Burn: A case study on the redesign of federal prescribed fire training in the U.S.

“To restore ecosystem health and reduce the negative impacts of wildfire, scientists and land managers argue that more prescribed fire is needed on the land. However, a lack of effectively trained personnel in the role of “burn boss” is a barrier to increasing safe and effective prescribed burning.” Read HERE
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Wildfire and communities: Are there tradeoffs when promoting fire mitigation versus evacuation preparedness?

“For homeowners living in the wildland-urban interface, wildfire outreach programs encourage wildfire risk mitigation and evacuation preparedness as steps to protect homes and lives in the event of a wildfire. Wildfire risk mitigation may include activities such as removing vegetation from around structures and storing combustible materials (e.g. firewood or propane tanks) away from homes.…
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How much is enough?

Fostering resilience to high-severity fire through fuel treatments “Healthy forests are resilient – able to resist, recover, and reorganize following disturbances like fires or drought. Resilience is a cornerstone of ecological forestry. Here, we address a simple question with a complex answer – how much work does it take to rekindle forest ecosystem resilience?” Read…
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Strengthening Fire Resilience Through CWPPs: Tools, Stories, and Community Learning

Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) play a critical role in building wildfire resilience across landscapes and neighborhoods. These collaborative planning efforts help communities identify wildfire risk, center local priorities, and connect neighbors, agencies, and organizations in shared goals for mitigation and preparedness. Read HERE
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The Diffusion of Risk Management Assistance for Wildland Fire Management in the United States

“This paper evaluated the use of an emerging wildfire DST, the Risk Management Assistance (RMA) dashboard, during the 2021 and 2022 wildfire seasons. We used a mixed-method approach, consisting of an online survey and in-depth interviews with fire managers. “ Read HERE Beeton, T. A., Aldworth, T., Colavito, M. M., vonHedemann, N., Huayhuaca, C., & Caggiano,…
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A big fire with low fire severity: Lessons from the Black Fire

“When the Black Fire ignited in southwestern New Mexico in 2022, it had all the ingredients for disaster: record-high winds, extremely low humidity, and over 131,000 hectares (323,708 acres) of forest fuels to feed on. But something unexpected happened. Instead of becoming another catastrophic megafire, it burned mostly at low to moderate severity. The secret?…
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Active-fire landscapes demonstrate structural resistance to subsequent fire and drought

” In this study, we used overlapping airborne lidar datasets spanning active-fire landscapes in the Sierra Nevada, California, to evaluate how tree densities, clumping patterns, and height distributions changed during a decade of moderate-intensity wildfires and extreme drought.” Read HERE
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Test Blog Grid

Louisville Wildfire and Conflagration Risk Assessment

Improving understandings of public experiences with prescribed fire in the wildland–urban interface: a co-produced rapid survey approach

Invest in People and Community Resilience Will Follow

Learning to Burn: A case study on the redesign of federal prescribed fire training in the U.S.

Wildfire and communities: Are there tradeoffs when promoting fire mitigation versus evacuation preparedness?

How much is enough?

Strengthening Fire Resilience Through CWPPs: Tools, Stories, and Community Learning

The Diffusion of Risk Management Assistance for Wildland Fire Management in the United States

A big fire with low fire severity: Lessons from the Black Fire

Active-fire landscapes demonstrate structural resistance to subsequent fire and drought

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