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Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group
The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to reduce risk of fire spread in wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities.
Welcome
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Program conducts research to reduce risk of fire hazard in WUI communities. This research includes mission-related measurement science research and services to develop wildland-urban interface fire risk exposure metrics; predict the spread of fires in WUI communities, assess fire performance of structures and communities, and mitigate effects of WUI fires on structures and communities through science-based codes and standards.
Specific areas of research currently being solicited through the Disaster Resilience Grant 2020 funding opportunity include the development, advancement, and deployment of measurement science to:
- Predict spot fire ignition for development of a computational infrastructure for forecasting and reconstruction of major large outdoor fire events.
Highlights
Watch the video: With Its Dragon, NIST Aims to Reduce the Toll of Wildfires
NIST's Firebrand Generator (also known as the "Dragon") produces showers of burning embers—or firebrands. Ingesting wood chips and exhaling firebrands, the novel equipment is used in research to better understand the behavior of wildfires that spread to communities.
