Research

Fast fires
When it comes to wildfire danger, speed – not size – is the real threat to communities and infrastructure. Despite being...
Macroscale resilience
Across the Western U.S., an estimated 6.3 billion dead trees stand as evidence of increasingly severe and frequent beetl...

Post-fire carbon recovery across scales
Forests store a significant portion of Earth’s carbon. Coniferous forests alone account for nearly one-third of global t...

Social sensing
Wildfires are increasingly affecting lives, livelihoods, and landscapes, but to truly reduce their impact, we need to un...

Societal impacts and social vulnerability of fires
As global urbanization accelerates, more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface (WUI), which puts millions ...