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Feb 11, 2021
Editor’s Note: Daniel Gorham is a research engineer at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. At the IBHS Research Center in South Carolina, Daniel and his… Read More
Jul 02, 2020
Author’s note: I hope that this blog finds you and your loved ones safe and relatively well. I originally wrote this post before both the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprising… Read More
May 28, 2020
Editor’s note: 2020 has brought countless changes to our world. Together, we are beginning to reimagine our way of living—with wildfire, but also in every other sector.… Read More
May 21, 2020
In 2012, the 10,000+ acre Weber Fire blew through a wilderness study area and into the canyon of a neighborhood where I’d been supporting wildfire preparedness through… Read More
Sep 19, 2019
On July 13th, lightning ignited the Francisquito fire on the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. Forest Service incident decision makers described their management… Read More
Dec 06, 2018
The Importance of Spatial Data When responding to wildfires, firefighters often have difficulty figuring out where the fire is, where it’s going, and what’s in its way.… Read More
Topic: Planning Wildfire Wildfire risk assessment
Type: Tools / Resources
Apr 05, 2018
At the end of a windy summer day, an engine captain receives a smoke report from the dispatch center, readies his crew, and heads up the mountain in search of the fire. The… Read More
Topic: Planning Wildfire risk assessment
Type: Tools / Resources
Mar 29, 2018
Wildfire practitioners face the overwhelming challenge of changing the behaviors of residents and the physical conditions of structures and landscapes. Rather than using… Read More
Dec 12, 2017
While looking through an old hard drive, I found a homework assignment from an undergraduate silviculture class. The assignment was simple: develop a prescription for a full… Read More
Oct 03, 2017
“[This tool] determined the need for increased public outreach and a central contact during incidents. One year later, a new emergency manager independently reached the same… Read More