This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of Topics
• About the Editor
• A
• Active Fire Detection Algorithms
• Active Perimeter
• Activity Fuels
• Aerial Delivery Systems
• Aerial Fuels
• Airborne Remote Sensing of Wildland Fire
• Airborne Remote Systems
• Airborne Sensor System
• Airborne Wildfire Detection
• Airborne-Based Fire Detection
• Airtankers
• Airway
• Anabatic Wind
• Ancillary Structures
• Arrival Center
• Aspect
• Atmospheric Moisture
• Atmospheric Turbulence
• Automatic Surveillance Methods
• Automatic Wildfire Monitoring
• B
• Backing Fire
• Barriers
• Base Camp
• Bladder Bag
• Blow-Up
• Borate Bombers
• Brands
• Breakover
• Breeze
• Brown Off
• Building and Fire Codes
• Building and Fire Ordinances
• Building and Fire Regulations
• Building and Fire Standards
• Building Codes and Standards for New Construction
• Burn Out and Backfire/Backfiring
• Burn Severity
• Burn Severity Imaging
• Burning Period
• Burning Rate
• Burnover
• Bush Fire
• Bushfire
• Bushfires
• Byram's Fire Intensity
• C
• Canopy Cover
• Canopy Fire
• Canopy Fuel
• Canopy Gap Fraction
• Canopy Scorch Height
• Canopy Shading
• Canyon Fire
• Canyons
• Cardinal Directions
• Case Study
• Chaparral
• Characteristic Surface-Area-to-Volume
• Chimney Effect
• City Planning
• Class A foam
• Climbing Vines
• Close Call
• Coarse Woody Debris
• Coexisting with Fire
• Combi
• Combustible External Elements
• Combustion
• Combustion Products
• Command Center
• Community Risk Reduction
• Compass Bearing
• Compass Directions
• Comprehensive Conservation Plans
• Computational Evacuation Modeling in Wildfires
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Conduction
• Consensus Building Standards
• Controlled Burning
• Convection
• Coordination Center
• Coordination Personnel
• Coordination System Locations
• Cost of Compliance
• Cost of Suppression
• Costs of Mechanical Fuel Reduction Treatments
• Costs of WUI Codes and Standards for New Construction
• Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Interactions
• Coyote Camp
• Creeping Fire
• Creeping Ground Fire
• Creeping Surface Fire
• Crown Fire
• Crown Fuels
• Crown Scorch Height
• Crown Scorching
• Cultural Burning
• D
• Damage Inspection
• Data Collection
• DBH
• Dead Branches
• Dead-to-Live Ratio
• Decks, Porches, and Patios
• Defensive Actions and People Preparedness
• Degree of Curing
• Delayed Tree Mortality
• Detached Structures
• Diameter at Breast Height
• Die-Off
• Direct Flame Contact
• Dispatch Personnel
• Disturbance Ecology
• Downslope Wind
• Draft
• Dragon Twist
• Drainage Wind
• Drone
• Dry Lightning
• Dry Thunderstorms
• Dry-Off
• Duff
• E
• Ecological Burn
• Economics of WUI/Wildfire Prevention and Education
• Effluents
• Elevation
• Emergency Alerts
• Emergency Information
• Emergency Notification: Warnings and Alerts
• Emergency Response Center
• Emissions
• Emissions Measurements
• Entrapment
• Eruptive Fires
• Escape
• Escape Routes
• Estimating Suppression Expenditures
• Evacuation
• Event Reconstruction
• Exposure to Air Toxics
• Exterior Wall
• Exterior Wall Penetration
• Extinguisher Agents
• Extinguishment Agents
• F
• Facing Slope
• Fall Wind
• Fences and Accessory Structures
• Field Station
• Filtering Combustion
• Fine-Scale Model
• Finishing
• Fire Acceleration
• Fire Adapted Community
• Fire and Bark Beetle Interactions
• Fire and Insect Interactions
• Fire Bases
• Fire Bombers
• Fire Border
• Fire Build-Up
• Fire Camp
• Fire Causes
• Fire Centers
• Fire Complex
• Fire Data
• Fire Database
• Fire Devil
• Fire Ecology
• Fire Effects on Soils and Hydrology
• Fire Emissions
• Fire Extinguishers
• Fire Frequency
• Fire Front Intensity
• Fire Front Velocity
• Fire History
• Fire Ignition
• Fire Initiation
• Fire Intensity
• Fire Intervals
• Fire Locations
• Fire Loss
• Fire Management Plan
• Fire Management Staff
• Fire Mapping
• Fire Monitoring
• Fire Orders
• Fire Out
• Fire Perimeter
• Fire Program Management Personnel
• Fire Records
• Fire Recurrence
• Fire Regime
• Fire Reporting
• Fire Response Personnel
• Fire Retardants
• Fire Severity
• Fire Severity Imaging
• Fire Shelter
• Fire Situations That Shout Watch Out
• Fire Speed
• Fire Statistics
• Fire Statistics; Fire Trends
• Fire Support Bases
• Fire Support Personnel
• Fire Suppressants
• Fire Tornado
• Fire Twister
• Fire Use
• Fire Warehouse
• Fire Whirls
• Fire Whirlwind
• Fire-Biotic Interactions
• Firebrand Ignition from Forest
• Firebrand Processes in Wildland Fires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
• Firebrand Shower Produced from Accessory Structure Combustion
• Firebrands and Embers
• Firebrands Generated from Burning Buildings
• Firebreak
• Firebreak and Fuelbreak
• Fire-Caused Tree Mortality
• Firefighter Fatalities
• Firefighters
• Fire-Fighting Additives
• Fire-Fighting Chemicals
• Firefighting Expenditure
• Firefighting Locations
• Firefighting Orders
• Firefighting Positions
• Fire-Induced Tree Mortality
• Fireline Intensity
• Firenado
• Firing Operation
• First- and Second-Order Fire Effects
• First-Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)
• First-Order Fire Effects: Direct Fire Effects
• Flame Dimensions
• Flame front Characteristics
• Flame Impingement
• Flame Retardants
• Flame Zone Characteristics
• Flank Fire
• Flanking Fire
• Flapper
• Flare-Up
• Flee
• Fluid Mechanics
• Flying Brands
• Foehn Winds
• Foliar Moisture Content
• Forest Fire
• Forest Plan
• Frontal Fire Intensity
• Frontal Intensity
• Fuel Accumulation
• Fuel Break
• Fuel Buildup
• Fuel Changes
• Fuel Characterization Techniques
• Fuel Connectivity
• Fuel Continuity
• Fuel Distribution
• Fuel Fluxes
• Fuel Hazard Reduction Treatments
• Fuel Load
• Fuel Loading
• Fuel Managed Areas
• Fuel Measurement and Fuel Estimation
• Fuel Model
• Fuel Moisture
• Fuel Mosaic
• Fuel Reduction Burn
• Fuel Reduction Treatment
• Fuelbreak
• G
• Gale
• Glass
• Gorges
• Gradient
• Grass Curing/Cured Fuels
• Grasses
• Gravity Wind
• Ground Fire
• Ground Fuel
• Ground System for Early Wildfire Detection
• Ground-Based Fire Detection
• Ground-Based Sensor Systems
• Gulleys
• Gust
• H
• Haines Index
• Hand Tools, Chain Saw, Leaf Blower, and Backpack Pump
• Hardened
• Hazard Reduction Burn
• Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatment
• Head Fire
• Headfire
• Heading Fire
• Heat Flux
• Heat Release Rate
• Heat Transfer from Fires
• Heat Transmission
• Heel Fire
• Height
• Height of Crown Scorch
• Height of Lethal Scorch
• Height of Lethal Scorching
• Height of Scorch
• Helicopter Landing and Take-Off Base
• Helicopter Landing Pad
• High-Based Thunderstorms
• Historical Range and Variation (HRV)
• Holding Area
• Homogenous Fuels
• Hot Metal Particles
• Hotspot
• Hotspots Detection
• House External Attachment
• Human Ignitions
• Humidity Measurements
• I
• Ignition
• Ignition Devices
• Ignition Sources
• Ignition-Resistant Communities
• Imaging Postfire Environments
• Imaging Wildfire Propagation
• Impacts of Wildfire on Children
• In Situ Diagnostics for Characterization of Mass and Energy Transport
• Incident Command System
• Incident Commander
• Incident Management Personnel
• Incident Management Team (IMT) Support Locations
• Incident Personnel
• Incident Response Support Locations
• Indigenous Fire Stewardship
• Indigenous~Fire~Stewardship~= Indigenous Fire Management
• Indigenous People = Aboriginal People
• Information Center
• Information Systems
• Inhalation
• Instability
• Instrumentation
• Interagency Dispatch Center
• Interface
• Intermix
• Intervention
• Intrusion of Flames
• Investigation
• K
• Katabatic Wind
• L
• Ladder Fuels
• LAI: Leaf Area Index
• Land and Resource Management Plan
• Land Management Plan
• Land Protection Plans
• Landing Spot
• Landscape Ecology of Fire
• Landscape Fire Ecology
• Landscape Plants
• Large Airtanker (LAT)
• Lateral Spread
• Leave
• Lessons Learnt from Post-Fire Surveys and Investigations
• Lethal Scorch Height
• Line-Fire Intensity
• Litter
• Living with Fire
• Logging Slash
• Long-Term Durability of the Reaction to Fire Performance
• Long-Term Fire Retardant
• Lower Atmosphere Severity Index (LASI)
• Low-Oxygen Combustion
• Low-Temperature Combustion
• M
• Management Burning
• Mass Loss Rate
• Masticated Fuels
• McLeod
• Measuring Rate of Spread
• Mediterranean Forest Fuels
• Mediterranean Shrubland
• Mediterranean Vegetative Fuels
• Modeling Approaches
• Mulching
• Multi-fire Interaction (Fire Merging)
• N
• National Incident Management System (NIMS) ICS
• National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS) ICS
• National System Collecting Data on Fire
• Natural Fuels
• Natural Ignitions
• Natural Range of Variation (NRV)
• Near Miss
• Nonactivity Fuels
• Non-flaming Combustion
• Numerical Simulation
• O
• Occluded
• Occupational Demands
• On-the-Incident Locations
• Open Eave
• Opening
• Operational Wildland Fire Behavior Models and Systems
• Ornamental Vegetation
• P
• Pack Test
• Peat Fire
• Peat or Muck Organic Soil
• Penetration
• Peripheral Structures
• Personal Gear Pack and Fireline Pack
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Wildland Firefighters
• PG Bag (Personal Gear Bag)
• Photosynthetically Active Leaf Surface Area
• Physical Demands
• Physical Modelling of Wildland Fires
• Physics-Based Modelling
• Piled Slash
• Ping-Pong Ball
• Planned Burning
• Post-Bushfire Studies
• Post-Fire Case Studies
• Post-Fire Data
• Post-Fire Reconstructions
• Postfire Remote Sensing
• Post-Fire Survey
• Post-Fire Tree Mortality
• Pre-fire and Post-fire Data Studies in the WUI
• Preparedness
• Prescribed Burning
• Pulaski
• Pyrolysis
• R
• Radiant Heat
• Radio Center
• Rate of Fire Spread
• Rate of Forward Spread
• Rate of Progression
• Ravines
• Reburn
• Red Bag
• Refuge
• Release Center
• Remote Sensing of Burn Severity
• Remote Sensing of Fire Behavior
• Remote Sensing of Fire Severity
• Remotely-Piloted Aircraft (RPA)
• Remotely-Piloted Vehicle (RPV)
• Repeated Burning
• Residential Fuel
• Residential-Wildland Interface
• Resource Management Plan
• Retardant Base
• Retardant Bombers
• Rhino
• Ridges
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Mapping
• Risk Modelling
• Road Flare
• Roof Covering
• Roofing, Gutters, and Eaves
• Rural-Urban Interface
• S
• Safe Area
• Safety Zone
• Satellite-Based Fire Detection
• Scaling
• Scaling Laws
• Scaling Modeling
• Sclerophyllous Shrubland
• Scorch Height
• Scorching
• Screen
• Scrubland
• Second-Order Fire Effect: Indirect Fire Effects
• Sector
• Semi-automatic Wildfire Surveillance
• Senescence
• Shaded Fuel Break
• Shelter in Place
• Shrub Stem Diameter
• Shrubs
• Sidings, Windows, and Glazing
• Similarity
• Single Engine Airtanker (SEAT)
• Situation Awareness
• Situational Awareness
• Slash Treatment
• Slop Over
• Slope and Terrain
• Slope Aspect
• Slope Flow
• Slope Winds
• Smoke
• Smoke Exposure
• Smoke Obscuration/Visibility
• Smoke Transport
• Smoldering Combustion
• Soffited Eave
• Soil Burn Severity
• Soot and Effects on Wildland/WUI Fire Behavior
• Spaceborne Thermal Remote Sensing
• Sparks
• Spotting/Spot Fire
• Standard Firefighting Orders
• Standard Orders
• Stay and Defend
• Steepness
• Structure Firebrand Attack
• Subordinate Structures
• Supply Center
• Suppression Costs
• Suppression Expenditures
• Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio
• Surface Fire
• Surface Fuels
• Surface to Crown Transition
• Surface-Active Agent
• Surface-to-Volume Ratio
• Surfactant
• T
• Temperature
• Ten Standard Fire Orders
• Thermal Exposure
• Thermal Load
• Thermal Radiation
• Thinning Slash
• Torch
• Torching
• Town Planning
• Traditional Fire Knowledge = Indigenous Fire Knowledge
• Tree Bole Diameter
• Turbulent Eddies
• U
• Under Eave
• Underburn
• Understory Burn
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
• Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)
• Upslope Wind
• Urban and Land Use Planning
• Use of Wildland Fire
• V
• Vacate
• Validation of Wildfire Spread Models
• Vegetative Ember Shower
• Vegetative Firebrand Attack
• Vents
• Verandas
• Vertically Projected Cover
• Very Large Airtanker (VLAT)
• Vortices
• W
• Warning Message
• Watch Out Situations
• Watchtower
• Water Bombers
• Water Enhancers
• Water Site
• Weathering Effects on Fire Retardant Wood Treatments
• Wetting Agents and Foams
• WFU
• Whirlwind
• Wilderness Fire Use
• Wildfire
• Wildfire Control Cost
• Wildfire Ignitions
• Wildfire Perimeter Containment Expenditure
• Wildfire-Resistant Construction
• Wildfires and WUI Fire Fatalities
• Wildland Fire
• Wildland Fire CFD Model
• Wildland Fire Fighting Protective Garments
• Wildland Fire for Resource Benefits
• Wildland Fire Rate of Spread
• Wildland Fire Use
• Wildland Fire/WUI Fire Management Expenditures
• Wildland Firefighter Physiological Job Demands
• Wildland Firefighting Chemicals
• Wildland Firefighting Locations
• Wildland Firefighting Personnel
• Wildland Fuel Dynamics
• Wildland Fuel Treatments
• Wildland-Human Interface
• Wildland-Urban Interface
• Wind
• Window Assembly
• Work Capacity Test
• Work Demands
• WUI Risk Assessment at the Landscape Level