Wildland urban interface fire

News and Updates

Groups of people sit or lie in a parking lot surrounded by low buildings as fires burn in the forest beyond.

NIST Issues New Guidance for Emergency Response During Wildfires

August 23, 2023

Lessons learned from the 2018 Camp Fire in California include strategies for protecting lives when there is not enough time to safely evacuate all residents.

Photo shows a NIST firefighter on standby watching a shed burn next to a target structure representing a wall of a residence during an experiment.

For Sheds in Wildfire Zones, NIST Researchers Determine How Close Is Too Close to Home

June 1, 2023

How far away do sheds need to be located to significantly limit fire spread to homes? New research led by NIST has begun to provide important answers.

Flames rising from a burning fence are spreading to a tree above and a shed nearby.

NIST Study Finds Wildfire Hazards in Residential Fences and Mulch Beds

August 11, 2022

When building fences and landscaping their properties, homeowners should keep fire safety on the top of their minds.

Publications

The NIST Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Case Study Approach and Outlook

July 19, 2024

Author(s)

Eric Link

Wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires are a threat to thousands of communities in the United States. Thousands of structures are destroyed, and thousands of

Preliminary Field Burns of RV Trailers with External Ignitions

July 10, 2024

Author(s)

Eric Link, Shonali Nazare, Karen Jackson, Lucy Fox, Alexander Maranghides

Two recreational vehicle (RV) travel trailers were burned outdoors at the Austin Fire Department training campus in Austin, TX. The goal of these preliminary

FastFuels: Advancing Wildland Fire Modeling with High-Resolution 3D Fuel Data and Data Assimilation

July 2, 2024

Author(s)

Anthony Marcozzi, Lucas Wells, Russel Parsons, Eric Mueller, Rodman Linn, Kevin Hiers

Acquiring detailed 3D fuel data for advanced fire models remains challenging, particularly at large scales. This study presents FastFuels, a novel platform

On the Nusselt Number Correlations of Tandem Surrogate Firebrands on a Flat Surface

June 28, 2024

Author(s)

Savannah Wessies, Jiann C. Yang

Through the heat-mass transfer analogy, naphthalene sublimation experiments were conducted in a heated-air wind tunnel to study the effects of aspect ratio and