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International Journal of Wildland Fire

International Journal of Wildland Fire

International Journal of Wildland Fire publishes articles on basic and applied aspects of wildland fire science including, but not confined to, ecological impact, modelling fire and its effects, and management of fire. Read more about the journalMore

Editors-in-Chief: Stefan Doerr and Martin Girardin

Publishing Model: Open Access

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Published online 24 March 2025

WF24115Numerical investigation of the effect of wind, slope and fuel moisture on the radiative and convective heating of excelsior fuels

M. S. Sadeghi, Maryam Ghodrat 0000-0003-4009-5262, Duncan Sutherland, Albert Simeoni, Jason Sharples 0000-0002-7816-6989 and Harald Kleine
 

The present work focuses on the effect of the three main parameters wind, slope angle and fuel moisture on heat transfer in the special type of grass in Australia. The role of convective cooling and its significance in the propagation of fire are of interest.

WF24115 Abstract  |  WF24115 Full Text  | WF24115PDF (3.8 MB)  | WF24115Supplementary Material (152 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 18 March 2025

WF24162Burning poop: chemical composition and carbon dynamics of large herbivore dung burned in African savanna fires

C. Sánchez-García, C. Santín, T. Strydom, X. L. Otero and S. H. Doerr
 

The role of fire in consuming herbivore dung and affecting nutrient dynamics in savannas, shown graphically.

Fire and herbivores are vital for savannas, affecting nutrient cycling. We examined wild large herbivore dung burned during African savanna fires. Burning reduced carbon in dung more than in grass fuels, with ash from dung being richer in nutrients and metals. Considering dung in fuel inventories improves carbon emission estimates.

This article belongs to the collection: Savanna burning.

WF24162 Abstract  |  WF24162 Full Text  | WF24162PDF (5.1 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 13 March 2025

WF24002Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season

Sílvia Catarino 0000-0002-8915-6647, João M. N. Silva, Alana K. Neves, Duarte Oom and José M. C. Pereira 0000-0003-2583-3669
 

This study explores climate’s influence on fire occurrence in African savannas, revealing an increasing trend in fire danger, especially in the late dry season. Findings highlight the need for adaptive measures to mitigate wildfire impacts and highlight the importance of anticipating human-caused fires to reduce emissions and protect biodiversity.

This article belongs to the collection: Savanna Burning.

WF24002 Abstract  |  WF24002 Full Text  | WF24002PDF (3.3 MB)  | WF24002Supplementary Material (2.6 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 11 March 2025

WF24178Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States

Alison Deak 0000-0003-3750-730X, Jennifer E. Fawcett 0000-0002-6228-3937, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Christopher Adlam, John R. Weir and Jeffery Stackhouse
 

Three photos showing examples of PBA-led prescribed burns in the western US, southeastern US, and Great Plains.

Innumerable barriers exist for private landowners wishing to manage their properties using beneficial fire in the United States. Results from our nationwide survey of Prescribed Burn Associations demonstrate how they are mobilizing thousands of volunteers to overcome these barriers and reclaim local fire stewardship.

WF24178 Abstract  |  WF24178 Full Text  | WF24178PDF (1.8 MB)  | WF24178Supplementary Material (342 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 28 February 2025

WF24121A bottom–up savanna fire fuel consumption inventory and its application to savanna burning in Kafue National Park, Zambia

Tom Eames, Adrian Kaluka, Roland Vernooij, Cameron Yates, Jeremy Russell-Smith and Guido R. van der Werf
 

We detail construction of a bottom–up fuel inventory including all major fuel types relevant to savanna burning. Using this methodology can give accurate and dynamic insights into available fuel. We compare calculated emissions with those from other models and examine emissions for a case study in Kafue national park (Zambia).

This article belongs to the collection: Savanna Burning.

WF24121 Abstract  |  WF24121 Full Text  | WF24121PDF (3.4 MB)  | WF24121Supplementary Material (1 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 25 February 2025

WF24030Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires

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

Crown fire experiments are carried out using cypress trees with different crown heights to investigate the behaviour and heat transfer of crown fire. The crown fire behaviours, including flame geometry, fire plume temperature, mass loss rate and heat flux under different crown heights, are compared and analysed.

WF24030 Abstract  |  WF24030 Full Text  | WF24030PDF (3.2 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 24 February 2025

WF23162Pattern recognition and modelling of virulent wildfires in Spain

María Bugallo 0000-0001-6290-3510, María Dolores Esteban, Manuel Francisco Marey-Pérez 0000-0002-8947-8355 and Domingo Morales
 

Flow chart of procedure for analysing wildfire data to map risk of large forest fires and two resulting map outputs

This work analyses arson and natural wildfire behaviour in Spain through pattern recognition techniques and zero-inflated generalised mixed models. Models used are statistically based and mathematically supported. Our research provides risk measures that allow a better spatio-temporal distribution of fire suppression media and therefore a better management of resources.

WF23162 Abstract  |  WF23162 Full Text  | WF23162PDF (2.4 MB)  | WF23162Supplementary Material (255 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 20 February 2025

WF24040Enhancing fire emissions inventories for acute health effects studies: integrating high spatial and temporal resolution data

Sam D. Faulstich 0000-0002-4445-9660, Matthew J. Strickland and Heather A. Holmes
 

This study improves fire emissions inventories (FEIs) by combining high spatial and temporal resolution burned area information and accounts for missing data caused by cloud cover. This dataset provides daily fire emissions information that can be used to estimate human exposure in acute health effects studies.

WF24040 Abstract  |  WF24040 Full Text  | WF24040PDF (1.9 MB)  | WF24040Supplementary Material (173 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 20 February 2025

WF24057Using hydrological modelling to improve the Fire Weather Index system over tropical peatlands of peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo

J. Mortelmans 0000-0003-1523-2851, S. Apers 0000-0002-5566-4950, G. J. M. De Lannoy, S. Veraverbeke, R. D. Field, N. Andela, S. E. Page and M. Bechtold 0000-0002-8042-9792
 

Global wildfires necessitate accurate risk assessments. The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) is a renowned system used to assess fire danger. Its effectiveness in peatlands, however, is limited. Prior research hints at improved FWI accuracy with inclusion of groundwater data. Our study validates this for tropical southeast Asian peatlands.

WF24057 Abstract  |  WF24057 Full Text  | WF24057PDF (1.8 MB)  | WF24057Supplementary Material (1.6 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 20 February 2025

WF23163Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management

Shanti Kumari, Shailja Mamgain, Arijit Roy and H. C. Prince
 

This study highlights spatial clusters of forest fires in the Western Himalayan region, India, based on long-term spatial and temporal patterns of forest fire and related environmental variables. High forest fire severity is observed in years having warm and dry winters that result in loss of fuel and soil moisture.

WF23163 Abstract  |  WF23163 Full Text  | WF23163PDF (3 MB)  | WF23163Supplementary Material (1.6 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 19 February 2025

WF24011Effect of fire severity and presence of bamboo (Chusquea culeou) on soil chemical properties in Andean Patagonian forests of Argentina

M. Florencia Urretavizcaya, M. Melisa Rago, Marina Caselli, Fernanda Ríos Campano, Stefano Gianolini and Virginia Alonso
 

Following a fire event, soil pH, organic matter, electrical conductivity, nitrogen, carbon–nitrogen ratio, and cation exchange capacity are changed by fire severity in Patagonia, Argentina. Regardless of fire, soil properties depend on forest type and presence of bamboo (Chusquea culeou). This information can be used for forest management and restoration.

WF24011 Abstract  |  WF24011 Full Text  | WF24011PDF (5 MB)  | WF24011Supplementary Material (650 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 14 February 2025

WF24093The potential of using magnetic susceptibility to identify past wildfires in Australia

Annika V. Herbert 0000-0001-9322-043X
 

Australia’s wildfire frequency is currently estimated using incomplete data, which may be possible to rectify using magnetic susceptibility readings in combination with charcoal records. This review paper explores the potential of using magnetic susceptibility to identify past fire events in Australia.

WF24093 Abstract  |  WF24093 Full Text  | WF24093PDF (1.2 MB)   Open Access Article

Published online 13 February 2025

WF24046Climate drying reduces serotinous seedbanks and threatens persistence in two fire-killed shrubs

N. J. Enright and M. C. Agne
 

Time to 50% maturity was 9–12 years longer and seed stores 50–90% lower in 2017 than in the 1990s for populations of two fire-killed serotinous species (Hakea decurrens and Banksia ornata) in south-east Australian woodlands/shrublands. Decreasing rainfall with climate change may already be threatening the persistence of these, and similar, species.

WF24046 Abstract  |  WF24046 Full Text  | WF24046PDF (1.8 MB)  | WF24046Supplementary Material (570 KB)   Open Access Article

Published online 05 February 2025

WF24096Short-term impacts of operational fuel treatments on modelled fire behaviour and effects in seasonally dry forests of British Columbia, Canada

Kea H. Rutherford 0009-0000-8321-8133, Bianca N. I. Eskelson, Lori D. Daniels, Valerie LeMay, Gregory A. Greene and Robert W. Gray
 

We modelled fire behaviour and effects before and after operational fuel treatments in seasonally dry forests of British Columbia, Canada. Low- and high-intensity thinning reduced potential of passive and active crown fire, respectively. Pruning had little added benefit to thinning. Chipping or pile burning of residue fuel mitigated potential fire behaviour.

WF24096 Abstract  |  WF24096 Full Text  | WF24096PDF (3.9 MB)  | WF24096Supplementary Material (536 KB)   Open Access Article

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  18. 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 0000-0002-5076-8515, Aaron M. Sparks, James G. Moberly, Henry D. Adams, Dylan W. Schwilk, Wade T. Tinkham 0000-0002-4668-7624, 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

  20. 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

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

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