Hardening of Structures to Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Expsoures

Published

October 14, 2014

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello

Abstract

Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world. In the USA, over 46 million homes in 70,000 communities are at risk of WUI fires [1-2]. These fires have destroyed an average of 3000 structures annually over the last decade and are rapidly growing [1-2]. The WUI fire problem may be viewed as a structure ignition problem. Since the best way forward to address the WUI problem is the hardening of structures [3], the technical basis for improved test standards and building codes are being developed. In this paper, a series of research gaps are discussed that must be addressed to be able to design buiding components to resist firebrand igntion, a significant hazard in WUI fire exposures.

Conference Dates

October 14-16, 2014

Conference Location

Duisburg

Conference Title

15th International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection, AUBE ’14

Pub Type

Conferences

Keywords

WUI Fires, Structure Ignition

Citation

Manzello, S. (2014), Hardening of Structures to Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Expsoures, 15th International Conference on Automatic Fire Detection, AUBE ’14 , Duisburg, -1 (Accessed October 18, 2025)