Wildland urban interface fire

News and Updates

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NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research

May 4, 2022

The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage

Developing Standards to Reduce Fire Damage

March 9, 2022

One of NIST’s primary missions is the development and use of standards to be used throughout society for the betterment of the public and improved quality of

Illustration shows two houses from above with distances marked between house, woodpile and shed for fire safety.

NIST Offers First-of-a-Kind Guidance for Holistic Home and Community Wildfire Protection

March 1, 2022

Once they have a foothold, severe wildfires can quickly overwhelm a community, particularly one that is densely packed. To shield houses against such a fierce

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Reducing Impact of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

Fires within communities surrounded by natural areas are the most dangerous and costliest fires in North America. Growing at a staggering 4,000 acres per day

Publications

WUI Structure/Parcel/Community Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodology

March 1, 2022

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, Eric Link, Shonali Nazare, Steven Hawks, Jim McDougald, Stephen Quarles, Daniel Gorham

In the last twenty years, wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have been growing in severity and size. The structures destroyed by WUI fires have devastated

The importance of combustion science to unravel complex processes for informal settlement fires, urban fires, and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires

December 9, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

Devastating large outdoor fires have been responsible for destruction of vast amounts of infrastructure and loss of human life. At first glance, the complex

The Interaction of Firebrand Showers and Vegetation in the Presence of Wind

November 25, 2021

Author(s)

Samuel Manzello, Sayaka Suzuki

These are images for photo gallery competition at 59th Japanese Combustion Symposium

A Case Study of the Camp Fire – Fire Progression Timeline; Appendix C. Community WUI Fire Hazard Evaluation Framework

November 5, 2021

Author(s)

Alexander Maranghides, Eric Link, William Mell, Steven Hawks, Mike Wilson, Will Brewer, Christopher U. Brown, Robert Vihnaneck, William Walton