To evaluate safe heat exposure distance (SHED) in wildland fire environments, we used a test apparatus to measure it in a small-scale experiment, and the SHED data of fire environments were obtained by establishing the conversion equation of heating source distances that connected a small-scale test with a fire environment.

Models were developed to estimate the probability of initial attack success in grassland-, forest- and shrubland-dominated vegetation types. The models include variables describing weather conditions, travel delay, slope and distance from roads, and they can be used as an early prompt to plan for protracted suppression.

Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations (PODs) were developed as a pre-season planning tool to promote safe and effective fire response. Past research on PODs has identified uses in an incident management context and explored avenues to strengthen its approach. This article explores how PODs are integrating fire and fuels planning.

Merging fires are extremely hazardous in wildfire spread. This work simulated the merging of parallel fires and compared them with lab-scale experiments. We gained new insights into how parallel fires interact with their surroundings. This research will help to improve strategies in wildfire management and reduce risks to firefighters and the public.

Laboratory experiments undertaken in dry eucalypt forest litter in a large combustion wind tunnel investigated the interactions between two non-intersecting oblique lines of fire at two angles of incidence under both calm and wind conditions. Fires burning with wind behaved significantly different to controls and non-wind fires.

Wildland fires are natural events that are part of the ecology of forests in Central America. However, a lack of knowledge hinders the implementation of intervention strategies. Our results show that a combination of human-driven and physical variables relate to the probability of wildland fire occurrence.

Factors influencing burn severity in tropical montane forest fires are poorly understood. We found that higher burn severity occurred under topographic conditions associated with steeper slopes and drier aspects, which promote greater fuel dryness. Burn severity also increased with elevation, possibly owing to greater vulnerability of tree species to fire.

The reflectance of charcoal may indicate how much heat it has been exposed to, making it a potential measure of fire severity, but the influences of other factors first need to be understood. Comparing 25 species, we found that denser wood produced charcoal with higher reflectance.

This study assessed the impact of a fire suppression chemical (Phos-Chek) on native and introduced species found in Western Australia. It observed that effects vary among species, with an overall negative impact to germination and emergence.

Plant species from fire-prone ecosystems may have various adaptations to fire. High temperatures reached in the soil during wildland fires stimulate the germination of hard-coated seeds. The effects of thermal shock are especially evident during the first 3 years after fire and they vary according to the seed mother plant.