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Assessing the effectiveness of prescribed burning in limiting the spread of future wildfires
Year: 2026
Background. Prescribed burning is a widely-used fire management strategy for maintaining socioeconomic and ecological resilience by mitigating the impacts of wildfires. Monitoring the effectiveness of prescribed burns on future fire spread, however, is challenged by limited data availability and quality. Aims. We seek to create a simple, replicable approach to assess the likelihood of an unplanned fire being limited or contained by a previous fire using only feature boundaries. Methods. We first present methods to calculate the percentage of the back half of a feature boundary that…
Publication Type: Journal Article