Not all wildfires can be averted, but data, models and collaborations can help to chart a course to a fire-resilient future. Jennifer K. Balch is a fire ecologist and director of the Environmental ...
On a hot September day in Texas Hill Country, the fire picked up, its flames popping the Jeep’s burning tires and airbags like plastic chip bags. Thirty or 40 feet away, a crew of firefighters, law ...
Researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno and University of Washington Tacoma will collaborate to develop a new model that helps land and fire managers better predict and manage wildfires. The ...
The ability to predict wildfires - such as those that recently devastated Los Angeles and Canada - is advancing rapidly with the help of ML–driven high-quality data. A new paper, published today ...
Only 21% of properties within the Eaton fire perimeter were in Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones. Yet 94% of those properties had “severe” or “extreme” wildfire risk, according to more ...