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International Journal of Wildland Fire

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volume 29 Number 2 2020


This scoping review examined information about the impacts of wildland fires on children, adolescents and family functioning. Impacts of wildland fires are related to age, gender, time and property loss. Future investigations need to focus on the family unit, children and adolescents as primary participants within a disaster framework.

WF19039Current and future patterns of forest fire occurrence in China

Zhiwei Wu, Hong S. He, Robert E. Keane, Zhiliang Zhu, Yeqiao Wang and Yanlong Shan
pp. 104-119

This study analysed current and future potential patterns of forest fires at a national scale in China. Under projected climate change, the probability of fire could substantially increase in the not-too-distant future. Spatially, increased fire probability is projected to shift northward in China. The potentially altered fire probabilities would likely pose challenges to land managers in maintaining health and functions of forest ecosystems.

WF19070Likelihood and frequency of recurrent fire ignitions in highly urbanised Mediterranean landscapes

Mario Elia, Vincenzo Giannico, Giuseppina Spano, Raffaele Lafortezza and Giovanni Sanesi
pp. 120-131

We used Hurdle models to analyse the influence of human and biophysical variables in predicting both the likelihood and frequency of fire recurrent ignition points. They showed a negative relationship with population and road density and a positive relationship with land-cover variables. Road density was the strongest predictor of recurrent fire ignitions, followed by the presence of shrublands and grasslands. NDVI and NDWI were also good predictors of fire recurrence.

WF19066Wildland fire emission factors in North America: synthesis of existing data, measurement needs and management applications

Susan J. Prichard, Susan M. O'Neill, Paige Eagle, Anne G. Andreu, Brian Drye, Joel Dubowy, Shawn Urbanski and Tara M. Strand
pp. 132-147

An online database, the Smoke Emissions Repository Application (SERA), was created to provide summaries of wildland fire emissions factors to be used in smoke management and emissions inventories. Based on identified information needs, we offer recommendations for future studies, including greater emphasis of emissions studies in long-duration smouldering fires.

WF19043Forest stand and site characteristics influence fuel consumption in repeat prescribed burns

Jacob I. Levine, Brandon M. Collins, Robert A. York, Daniel E. Foster, Danny L. Fry and Scott L. Stephens
pp. 148-159

In the present study, we quantify the consumption of ground and surface fuels in first-, second- and third-entry prescribed burns. We find that the following characteristics influence fuel consumption: total fuel load; proportion of overstorey pine; slope; canopy cover; basal area of live trees; burn number; and stand.

WF19073Generation and evaluation of an ensemble of wildland fire simulations

Frédéric Allaire 0000-0003-3564-1564, Jean-Baptiste Filippi 0000-0002-6244-0648 and Vivien Mallet
pp. 160-173

We propose a new method to generate an ensemble of wildfire simulations to predict fire spread. Ensembles are evaluated with probabilistic scores that are new to the wildlfire community. Application to seven fires supports that the method may be used with the limited data availability typical of an operational context, provided that we can access sufficient computational resources.


Classifying post-fire imagery for building damage, destruction, and defensive actions at the 2012 Colorado Waldo Canyon Fire showed a favourable performance when compared with ground-based assessments. This work highlights the importance of including post-fire imagery in post-fire assessments and the need to account for defensive actions in post-fire studies of the wildland–urban interface.

WF19067Ecosystem management applications of resource objective wildfires in forests of the Grand Canyon National Park, USA

Michael T. Stoddard 0000-0002-9664-3873, Peter Z. Fulé, David W. Huffman, Andrew J. Sánchez Meador and John Paul Roccaforte
pp. 190-200

Resource objective wildfires improved ecological conditions by maintaining intact conditions in pine-oak forest, restoring forest structure in mixed-conifer forest, and shifting spruce-fir forest to more open and heterogeneous forest structure conditions, all of which promoted a more fire- and climate-resilient species composition.

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