The Economic Value of Fuel Treatments: A Review of the Recent Literature for Fuel Treatment Planning

This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially

Contemporary (1984–2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States and ecoregional differences by land ownership

Background: Remotely sensed burned area products are critical to support fire modelling, policy, and management but often require further processing before use.

Aim: We calculated

Comparing risk-based fuel treatment prioritization with alternative strategies for enhancing protection and resource management objectives

Background

Advances in fire modeling help quantify and map various components and characterizations of wildfire

The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S. 2022 Report

T his report describes the full range of costs associated with wildland fire in the Western United States (U.S.) to help inform leaders and policymakers working to improve wildfire response and mitigation. Wildfire cost information has, in the past, primarily focused on suppression costs and

Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE

Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on

Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon

Background: Efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfire smoke have focused on modifying human behaviour to minimise individual exposure, largely accomplished by providing smoke forecasts, monitoring, and consistent public messaging.

Aims: