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Wildfire risk management in the era of climate change. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus
Abstract The August 8, 2023 Lahaina fire refocused attention on wildfires, public alerts, and emergency management. Wildfire risk is on the rise, precipitated through a combination of climate change, increased development in the wildland–urban interface (WUI), decades of unmitigated biomass accumulation in forests, and a long history of ...
Synolakis CE, Karagiannis GM.
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Wildfire management in Canada: Review, challenges and opportunities

Progress in Disaster Science, 2020
Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not. Climate change impacts and increasing interface values-at-risk are challenging suppression effectiveness and ...
Cordy Tymstra, Brian J. Stocks, Xinli Cai, Mike D. Flannigan   +3 more
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Three Lines of Defense for Wildfire Risk Management in Electric Power Grids: A Review

IEEE Access, 2021
Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas.
Ali Arab, Amin Khodaei, Rozhin Eskandarpour, Matthew P. Thompson, Yu Wei   +4 more
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Fueling the fires – An exploration of the drivers and the scope for management of European wildfire risk under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Climate Risk Management
As socio-natural phenomena, wildfires are exacerbated by climate change and socioeconomic dynamics. However, the role of socioeconomic uncertainty in shaping future wildfire risk and management remains largely neglected.
Eva Preinfalk, John Handmer
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Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants of Damage to Houses in Two Wildfires in Eastern Australia in 2013

Fire, 2021
Wildfires continue to destroy houses, but an understanding of the complex mix of risk factors remains elusive. These factors comprise six themes: preparedness actions (including defensible space), response actions (including defence), house construction,
Owen F. Price, Joshua Whittaker, Philip Gibbons, Ross Bradstock   +3 more
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Health costs of wildfire smoke to rise under climate change

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023
The global health burden from wildfire smoke is expected to worsen under climate change, yet we lack quantitative estimates of the economic costs of increased mortality and hospital admissions for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions.
Hamish Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Ross Bradstock, Owen Price, Trent Penman   +5 more
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Understanding homeowner proactive actions for managing wildfire risks [PDF]

Natural Hazards, 2022
Abstract Wildfires have become increasing threats to residents, built environments, and ecosystems in the United States. Individual responsibility plays a significant role in reducing structure-level ignitability, and in turn, overall community vulnerability.
Ji Yun Lee, Fangjiao Ma, Yue Li
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The 2019–2020 Australian forest fires are a harbinger of decreased prescribed burning effectiveness under rising extreme conditions

Scientific Reports, 2022
There is an imperative for fire agencies to quantify the potential for prescribed burning to mitigate risk to life, property and environmental values while facing changing climates.
Hamish Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Trent Penman, Owen Price, Matthias M. Boer, Ross Bradstock   +5 more
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Wildfire risk management across diverse bioregions in a changing climate

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2022
Wildfire risk-management needs to consider interrelated factors that influence fire regimes, including changing climate and sometimes conflicting stakeholder priorities.
Tristan Campbell, S. Don Bradshaw, Kingsley W. Dixon, Philip Zylstra   +3 more
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Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests.
Jamie L Peeler, Lisa McCauley, Kerry L Metlen, Travis Woolley, Kimberley T Davis, Marcos D Robles, Ryan D Haugo, Karin L Riley, Philip E Higuera, Joseph E Fargione, Robert N Addington, Steven Bassett, Kori Blankenship, Michael J Case, Teresa B Chapman, Edward Smith, Randy Swaty, Nathan Welch   +17 more
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