Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

Year

Type

Wildfire is changing. So are we.

04/15/2020

A year-round challenge requires a year-round workforce.

Ember production & transport study (www.firescience.gov)

04/13/2020

Spot fires caused by lofted embers can be a significant factor in the spread of wildland fires. This work seeks to identify ember generation characteristics for different fuel characteristics and environmental conditions at multiple length
scales.

BLM awards contracts for Alaska village-based wildland firefighting crews (akfireinfo.com)

04/10/2020

The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service awarded three contracts for Type 2 wildland firefighting hand crews based in rural northeastern and Interior Alaska villages for the 2020 fire season.

Study synthesizes what climate change means for northwest wildfires (www.usgs.gov)

04/10/2020

A University of Washington study published in Fire Ecology paints a comprehensive picture of future wildfires in the northwest.

Wildfire risk to communities (wildfirerisk.org)

04/09/2020

Wildfire Risk to Communities is a free, easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk.

Flood on the fireground: a day in the life of an American task force in Australia.

04/08/2020

In the winter of 2019/2020, hundreds of American firefighters deployed to assist Australia during an historic bushfire season. Join the members of Task Force 3B as they work through flat tires and flash floods to clear hazard trees along a remote road in Victoria.