Non-governmental organisations play critical roles in wildfire relief and recovery. Interviews after three Northern California wildfires reveal changes in NGO mission scope, impacts on mental health, the importance of coordination with government agencies and other NGOs, the value of prior disaster experience, and new challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Photograph (by Jennifer Gray Thompson) shows the home of Gary and Jean Jones destroyed in the Woolsey Fire. The Jones Family has lived on this land in Malibu Canyon for three decades and endured several wildfire threats, but nothing like the force of the Woolsey megafire event that destroyed their home on 8 November 2018

Pyrogeography provides a level of generalisation that aids in understanding fire regimes at large spatial scales. This study provides insights into current European pyroregions, which may serve as a basis for wildland fire risk management on a continental scale.

From 1746 to 1945, fires commonly burned in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada, synchronised by regional drought. Moderate-to-highly synchronous fires recurred once per 5.5 years. Post-1945 fire suppression, fuel accumulation and climate change enhanced the size and intensity of synchronous fires in 2017, 2018 and 2021 in British Columbia.

We used experimental fire and wildfire data to develop a model aimed at the operational prediction of the rate of fire spread in eucalypt forests. Model evaluation against independent datasets showed good predictive power, with relative errors observed to decrease with increasing rate of fire spread.