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1. Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (3)

   Alison Deak , Jennifer E. Fawcett , Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Christopher Adlam, John R. Weir, Jeffery Stackhouse

2. Short-term impacts of operational fuel treatments on modelled fire behaviour and effects in seasonally dry forests of British Columbia, Canada

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (2)

   Kea H. Rutherford , Bianca N. I. Eskelson, Lori D. Daniels, Valerie LeMay, Gregory A. Greene, Robert W. Gray

3. Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

   Alberto Ardid, Andres Valencia, Anthony Power, Matthias M. Boer, Marwan Katurji, Shana Gross, David Dempsey

4. Remote sensing applications for prescribed burn research

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (6)

   Anna LoPresti , Meghan T. Hayden , Katherine Siegel , Benjamin Poulter , E. Natasha Stavros , Laura E. Dee

5. Climate and weather drivers in southern California Santa Ana Wind and non-Santa Wind fires

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (8)

   Jon E. Keeley, Michael Flannigan, Tim J. Brown, Tom Rolinski, Daniel Cayan, Alexandra D. Syphard, Janin Guzman-Morales, Alexander Gershunov

6. Factors enabling fire management outcomes in Indigenous Savanna fire management projects in Western Australia

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (9)

   Tom Vigilante, Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation , Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation , Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation , Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation , Catherine Goonack, Desmond Williams, Aidan Joseph, Leigh-Ann Woolley, Rohan Fisher

7. Mental health risk for wildland firefighters: a review and future directions

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

   Shannon L. Wagner, Nicole White , Elyssa Krutop

8. Age and physical activity status of Australian volunteer firefighters: a cross-sectional study

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (4)

   David N. Borg , Daniel Moore, Ian B. Stewart

9. An offline coupling of fire spread models to simulate the 2021 Marshall Fire

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

   Fernando Szasdi-Bardales , Kasra Shamsaei , Timothy W. Juliano, Branko Kosovic, Hamed Ebrahimian , Negar Elhami-Khorasani

10. Evaluating a simulation-based wildfire burn probability map for the conterminous US

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Amanda R. Carlson , Todd J. Hawbaker, Lucas S. Bair, Chad M. Hoffman, James R. Meldrum , L. Scott Baggett, Paul F. Steblein

11. Assessing wildland fire suppression effectiveness with infrared imaging on experimental fires

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Melanie Wheatley, Joshua M. Johnston, B. Mike Wotton, Douglas G. Woolford, David L. Martell

12. Modelling and mapping burn severity of prescribed and wildfires across the southeastern United States (2000–2022)

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Melanie K. Vanderhoof , Casey E. Menick, Joshua J. Picotte, Kevin M. Robertson, Holly K. Nowell, Chris Matechik, Todd J. Hawbaker

13. Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (2)

    Hanwen Guo, Yunji Gao, Ziqun Ye, Zhengyuan Yang, Yuchun Zhang, Zijian Lei, Ao Sun

14. Integrating an urban fire model into an operational wildland fire model to simulate one dimensional wildland–urban interface fires: a parametric study

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (10)

    Dwi M. J. Purnomo, Yiren Qin , Maria Theodori, Maryam Zamanialaei, Chris Lautenberger, Arnaud Trouvé, Michael J. Gollner

15. Simulating wildfire spread based on continuous time series remote sensing images and cellular automata

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Huajian Zhuang, Naian Liu, Xiaodong Xie, Xuan Xu, Mengmeng Li, Yang Zhang, Rui Wang

16. Understanding rural adaptation to smoke from wildfires and forest management: insights for aligning approaches with community contexts

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Catrin M. Edgeley, Jack T. Burnett

17. Methods to assess fire-induced tree mortality: review of fire behaviour proxy and real fire experiments

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Alistair M. S. Smith, Raquel Partelli-Feltrin , Aaron M. Sparks, James G. Moberly, Henry D. Adams, Dylan W. Schwilk, Wade T. Tinkham , John R. Kok, David R. Wilson, Alex Thompson, Andrew T. Hudak, Chad M. Hoffman, James A. Lutz, Alexander S. Blanco, Mark A. Cochrane, Robert L. Kremens, Joseph Dahlen, Grant L. Harley, Scott W. Rainsford, Li Huang, Douglas D. Hardman, Luigi Boschetti, Daniel M. Johnson

18. Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (7)

    Amy Cardinal Christianson, Lynn M. Johnston, Jacqueline A. Oliver, David Watson, David Young, Heather MacDonald, John Little, Bruce Macnab, Noemie Gonzalez Bautista

19. The potential of using magnetic susceptibility to identify past wildfires in Australia

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (2)

    Annika V. Herbert

20. The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Mike Wotton, Melanie Wheatley

Collections

Collections are a curation of articles relevant to a topical research area

Savanna Burning

As demonstrated in Australian savannas, reducing carbon emissions through active fire management can generate tradable carbon credits providing income and employment opportunities for Indigenous and remote communities, and support biodiversity conservation. The success of this management approach has led to suggestions that it can be extended to other continents, for notable example in southern Africa and South America. This special issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire aims to explore the status of technical challenges, opportunities and potential livelihood and ecological benefits, associated with applying market-based fire management approaches in severely fire-impacted tropical savanna systems.

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025

Fire and Climate

This Special Collection on “Fire and Climate” showcases papers from and inspired by the eponymous conferences hosted by the International Association of Wildland Fire. The collection explores the way that climate change is affecting wildfire around the world – and the ways that changes in societal, legal, and political climate changes interact with these geophysical processes.

Guest Editor
Eric B. Kenedy (York University, Canada)

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024

Australian Fire Danger Rating System

This Collection in International Journal of Wildland Fire presents a series of papers that describe the development of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System (AFDRS). This new system was conceived following a review of existing Australian fire danger rating systems and associated danger categories in 2014. It was implemented in 2022 and has since been modified to improve performance, accuracy, and public-facing requirements.

Guest Editor
Paulo Fernandez (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal)

Last Updated: 04 Jul 2024

Celebrating 30 Years of Wildland Fire Science Publication

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of International Journal of Wildland Fire (IJWF), the official journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF), we have put together this Collection that includes a selection of review papers published in IJWF over the past 12 years, a compilation that highlights the wide range of disciplines in wildland fire research. In line with our commitment to diversity, authors and co-authors come from at least seven countries, and the corresponding authors on six of the 15 papers are female. We invite you to explore the full breadth of topics included in this Collection.

Collection Editors
Susan G. Conard, Stefan Doerr, and Jenny Foster

Last Updated: 27 May 2021

25 Years of International Journal of Wildland Fire

To celebrate 25 years of publication of International Journal of Wildland Fire, we present this Collection that includes some of the most-cited Research Papers we have published over the years. This Collection includes two papers from each five-year period, starting in 1991. One of these is the paper from each period that has received the most citations to date. To highlight the geographic scope of IJWF publications, the second paper is the most-cited paper where the lead author is from a different country than the highest-cited one.

Last Updated: 05 Dec 2016

Atmospheric Research

This Collection of International Journal of Wildland Fire covers the theme of Atmospheric Research, and was launched to coincide with the 2016 International Smoke Symposium (Long Beach, California) and the AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California). This collection showcases a diverse array of topics from a variety of geographical areas, including methods for tracking, modelling and inventory, social implications, climate implications, current and future research needs, and practical field management techniques for smoke.

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2016