The 2001 wildland and wildland/urban interface(W/UI) fire season began early this year with a large number of fire starts in Florida. As I began writing this short article, fires were still burning in ...

Technosylva, the global leader in wildfire and extreme weather science and technology, today launched major enhancements to its urban conflagration model that predicts how fires spread through ...

DENVER — A new study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that burned areas in the wildland-urban interface have increased by 35% since 2005 and that trend will likely ...

While conventional wildfires are fueled by burning of vegetation, fires in the WUI are fueled by vegetation and fuels from the built environment, such as homes, cars and other human-made structures.

The new wildfire modeling capabilities incorporate detailed urban fuel types, dynamic building loss factors and ...

TRI-CITIES – Out past the urban centers of Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane and toward the rural areas of central and Eastern Washington is an area of land not quite uninhabited and not quite bustling – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homes overlook a forest in the wildland-urban interface in Arizona. Marius von Essen The view from the foothills of the Sierra ...

Since January 7, wildfires have been devastating the Los Angeles area. In the span of 10 days, several different fires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, have burned more than 40,000 acres and ...

Bozeman, Montana — Acela Truck Company recently announced that it has expanded its line of Monterraâ„¢ high-mobility response apparatus to include wildland and urban interface fire trucks. With ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...

The view from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California can be beautiful – pine forests and chaparral spill across an often rugged landscape. But as more people build homes in this area, where ...

Fires in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) differ from wildland fires. Combustible materials in the WUI have different chemical compositions and densities, and are present in different quantities, ...