Trending and emerging prospects of physics-based and ML-based wildfire spread models: A comprehensive review

H Singh, LM Ang, T Lewis, D Paudyal, M Acuna… - Journal of Forestry …, 2024 - Springer
The significant threat of wildfires to forest ecology and biodiversity, particularly in tropical
and subtropical regions, underscores the necessity for advanced predictive models amidst …

Toward a better understanding of wildfire behavior in the wildland‐urban interface: A case study of the 2021 Marshall fire

TW Juliano, N Lareau, ME Frediani… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract On 30 December 2021, the Marshall Fire devastated the Boulder, Colorado region.
The fire initiated in fine fuels in open space just southeast of Boulder and spread rapidly due …

Sensitivity of simulated fire‐generated circulations to fuel characteristics during large wildfires

M Roberts, NP Lareau, TW Juliano… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coupled fire‐atmosphere models often struggle to simulate important fire processes like fire
generated flows, deep flaming fronts, extreme updrafts, and stratospheric smoke injection …

The Role of Fuel Characteristics and Heat Release Formulations in Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Simulation

K Shamsaei, TW Juliano, M Roberts, H Ebrahimian… - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this study, we focus on the effects of fuel bed representation and fire heat and smoke
distribution in a coupled fire-atmosphere simulation platform for two landscape-scale fires …

Optimizing Urban Critical Green Space Development Using Machine Learning

M Ganjirad, MR Delavar, H Bagheri, MM Azizi - Sustainable Cities and …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel framework for prioritizing urban green space development in
Tehran using diverse socio-economic, environmental, and sensitivity indices. The indices …

Assessing the Fire-Modified Meteorology of the Grassland and Forest Intersection Zone in Mongolia Using the WRF-Fire Model

Y Wang, L Shi, Z Shi, Q Yao, Z Wang, L Zhong - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change is already significantly affecting the frequency of wildfires in most regions of
the world, and the risk of wildfires is expected to amplify further with global warming …

The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression

JD Young, E Belval, B Gannon, Y Wei… - Forest Policy and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Pre-fire mitigation efforts that include the installation and maintenance of fuel breaks are
integral to wildfire suppression in Southern California. Fuel breaks alter fire behavior and …

Coupled Fire–Atmosphere Simulations of the Split, Croatia, Wildfire

IČ Tomašević, B Malečić, V Vučetić… - Journal of applied …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Weather Research and Forecasting Spread FIRE (WRF-SFIRE) model was
used to simulate the evolution of the fire perimeter for the Split wildfire in Croatia, evaluated …

An offline coupling of fire spread models to simulate the 2021 Marshall Fire

F Szasdi-Bardales, K Shamsaei… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2025 - CSIRO Publishing
Background: Existing fire spread models focus exclusively on wildland or urban fire
simulation. Aims: This study aims at an offline coupling of two fire spread models to enable a …

Brief communication: The Lahaina Fire disaster: How models can be used to understand and predict wildfires

TW Juliano, F Szasdi-Bardales… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Following the destructive Lahaina Fire in Hawaii, our team has modeled the wind and fire
spread processes to understand the drivers of this devastating event. The results are in good …