The Northwest Fire Science Consortium works to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science. We connect managers, practitioners, scientists, and local communities and collaboratives working on fire issues on forest and range lands in Washington and Oregon.
NWFSC is one of
fifteen regional exchanges
sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program.
New collaborative storymap:
Fire in the Western U.S.
Big fires. Big challenges. Big need for regional learning & action.
Storymap // LANDFIRE Office hours presentation of storymap.
New Resources
- Publication: Prioritizing science efforts to inform decision making on public lands
- Publication: Wildland–Urban Interface: Definition and Physical Fire Risk Mitigation Measures, a Systematic Review
- Publication: Downwind Fire and Smoke Detection during a Controlled Burn—Analyzing the Feasibility and Robustness of Several Downwind Wildfire Sensing Modalities through Real World Applications
- Publication: Building water resilience in the face of cascading wildfire risks
- Publication: Refuge-yeah or refuge-nah? Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fiery world
- Publication: Heading and backing fire behaviours mediate the influence of fuels on wildfire energy
- Publication: Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires
- Publication: Vertical and Horizontal Crown Fuel Continuity Influences Group-Scale Ignition and Fuel Consumption
- Publication: Proportion of forest area burned at high-severity increases with increasing forest cover and connectivity in western US watersheds
- Publication: Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the “let burn” narrative
