Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Smart fire-warning materials and sensors: Design principle, performances, and applications

LY Lv, CF Cao, YX Qu, GD Zhang, L Zhao… - Materials Science and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Fire safety and prevention of combustible materials are of paramount importance in modern
society but have been a global challenge. Frequent fire disasters cause massive casualties …

Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation

MR Kreider, PE Higuera, SA Parks, WL Rice… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests

RK Hagmann, PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Implementation of wildfire‐and climate‐adaptation strategies in seasonally dry forests of
western North America is impeded by numerous constraints and uncertainties. After more …

Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions

SJ Prichard, PF Hessburg, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
We review science‐based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests
that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of …

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

JT Abatzoglou, DS Battisti, AP Williams… - … Earth & Environment, 2021‏ - nature.com
Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has
heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories. As fires …

Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management

PF Hessburg, SJ Prichard, RK Hagmann… - Ecological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive
changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over …

Global emergence of anthropogenic climate change in fire weather indices

JT Abatzoglou, AP Williams… - Geophysical Research …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐
cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to …

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel… - Global Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

JK Balch, BA Bradley, JT Abatzoglou, RC Nagy… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in
recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in …