A research team led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has published a foundational inventory of emissions produced by structures destroyed by ...
In a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, with more than 16,000 homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by two fires in the Los Angeles area. Most ...
When the Gray fire tore through the Spokane County town of Medical Lake in August, one house just outside town limits was spared, even as the homes on either side burned to the ground. City of Spokane ...
Global distribution of WUIs. (a) Geographic distribution of global WUI areas, (b) zoomed-in subsets of intermix WUI and interface WUI areas and (c) global urban areas overlaid on high-resolution ...
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 ...
New research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from ...
Andrew Bozzo explains why the box approach to incident command at wildland urban interface fires ensures that saving lives and protecting property are the top priorities. The drawing and the command ...
Researchers at YSE have mapped the global distribution of wildlife species known to carry diseases that can affect humans in the wildland-urban interface. Nearly 3.5 billion people live in the messy ...