A5004015253- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Seismology and Earthquake Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Fire dynamics and safety research
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Fire Detection and Safety Systems
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Knowledge Management and Technology
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Advanced Data Storage Technologies
- Forest ecology and management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Nuclear Issues and Defense
- Research Data Management Practices
US Forest Service
2012-2025
Rocky Mountain Research (United States)
2014-2025
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2015-2025
Oregon State University
2023
Universidad de Murcia
2023
University of Coimbra
2014
San Antonio College
2014
Abstract Effective wildfire prevention includes actions to deliberately target different causes. However, the cause of an increasing number wildfires is unknown, hindering targeted efforts. We developed a machine learning model ignition across western United States on basis physical, biological, social, and management attributes associated with wildfires. Trained from 1992 2020 12 known causes, overall accuracy our exceeded 70% when applied out‐of‐sample test data. Our more accurately...
Abstract. The statistical analysis of wildfire activity is a critical component national planning, operations, and research in the United States (US). However, there are multiple federal, state, local entities with protection reporting responsibilities US, no single, unified system record keeping exists. To conduct even most rudimentary interagency analyses numbers area burned from authoritative systems record, one must harvest records dozens disparate databases inconsistent information...
Abstract This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2020) of US National Incident Management System Status Summary (ICS-209) forms (a total 187,160 reports for 35,170 incidents, including 34,478 wildland fires). system captures detailed daily/regular information on incident development and response, social economic impacts. Most (98.4%) are fire-related, with other types hurricane, hazardous materials, flood, tornado, search rescue, civil unrest, winter storms. The...
Abstract This paper presents a unique 15-year dataset of Incident Management Situation Reports (IMSR), which document daily wildland fire situations across ten geographical regions in the United States. The IMSR includes summaries for each reported day on national and regional wildfire activities, wildfire-specific committed suppression resources (i.e., personnel equipment). is distinct from other data sources as it provides information resource utilization, preparedness levels, management...
Abstract Wildfires in the western United States (US) are increasingly expensive, destructive, and deadly. Reducing wildfire losses is particularly challenging when fires frequently start on one land tenure damage natural or developed assets other ownerships. Managing risk multijurisdictional landscapes has recently become a centerpiece of strategic planning, legislation, research. However, important empirical knowledge gaps remain regarding cross-boundary fire activity US. Here, we use lands...
Abstract Background Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses intact big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities declines in obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals have shortened area burned has increased some areas, habitat degradation occurring where post-fire re-establishment hindered by invasive annual grasses. coming the changing climate may accelerate these wildfire feedbacks, although projecting future dynamics...
LANDFIRE is a large interagency project designed to provide nationwide spatial data for fire management applications. As part of the effort, many 2000 vintage Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced plus sets were used in conjunction with volume field information generate detailed vegetation type structure entire United States. In order keep these current relevant resource managers, there was strong need develop an approach updating products. We are using three different approaches purposes....
Olsen, C. S., J. D. Kline, A. Ager, K. and Short. 2017. Examining the influence of biophysical conditions on wildland–urban interface homeowners' wildfire risk mitigation activities in fire-prone landscapes. Ecology Society 22(1):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09054-220121
Abstract The sagebrush biome is a dryland region in the western United States experiencing rapid transformations to novel ecological states. Threat‐based approaches for managing anthropogenic and ecosystem threats have recently become prominent, but successfully mitigating depends on resilience of ecosystems. We used spatially explicit approach prioritizing management actions that combined threat‐based model with models disturbance resistance annual grass invasion. assessed geographic...
Abstract. Wildfires are increasingly impacting social and environmental systems in the United States (US). The ability to mitigate adverse effects of wildfires increases with understanding social, physical, biological conditions that co-occurred or caused wildfire ignitions contributed impacts. To this end, we developed FPA FOD-Attributes dataset, which augments sixth version Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD v6) nearly 270 attributes coincide date location each...
Abstract This paper describes a new dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2014) of U.S. National Incident Management System/Incident Command System Status Summary Form (a total 124,411 reports for 25,083 incidents, including 24,608 wildfires). system captures detailed information on incident management costs, personnel, hazard characteristics, values at risk, fatalities, and structural damage. Most (98.5%) are fire-related, followed in decreasing order by other , hurricane, hazardous...
Abstract Background Sagebrush ecosystems are experiencing increases in wildfire extent and severity. Most research on vegetation treatments that reduce fuels fire risk has been short term (2–3 years) focused ecological responses. We review causes of altered regimes summarize literature the longer-term effects modify (1) shrub fuels, (2) pinyon juniper canopy (3) fine herbaceous fuels. describe treatment behavior, resilience, resistance to invasive annual grasses. Results Our revealed...
Abstract The area burned in the western United States during 2020 fire season was greatest modern era. Here we show that number of human‐caused fires also elevated, nearly 20% higher than 1992–2019 average. Although anomalously dry conditions enabled ignitions to spread and contributed record burned, these alone do not explain surge ignitions. We argue behavioral shifts aimed at curtailing COVID‐19 altered human‐environment interactions favor increased For example, recreation‐caused...