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Social and Community Impacts of Fire

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Using focus groups for knowledge sharing: Tracking emerging pandemic impacts on USFS wildland fire operations

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

In early 2020 the US Forest Service (USFS) recognized the need to gather real-time information from its wildland fire management personnel about their challenges and adaptations during the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The USFS conducted 194 virtual focus groups to address these concerns, over 32 weeks from March 2020 to October 2020.

Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western US

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Theory predicts that effective environmental governance requires that the scales of management account for the scales of environmental processes. A good example is community wildfire protection planning. Plan boundaries that are too narrowly defined may miss sources of wildfire risk originating at larger geographic scales whereas boundaries that are too broadly defined dilute resources.

Mapping the distance between fire hazard and disaster for communities in Canadian forests.

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Communities interspersed throughout the Canadian wildland are threatened by fires that have become bigger and more frequent in some parts of the country in recent decades. Identifying the fireshed (source area) and pathways from which wildland fire may ignite and spread from the landscape to a community is crucial for risk-reduction strategy and planning.

The geography of social vulnerability and wildfire occurrence (1984–2018) in the conterminous USA

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Wildfire is increasing in frequency, extent, and severity in many parts of the USA. Considering the unequal burden of natural hazards on socially vulnerable populations, we ask here, how are characteristics of social vulnerability associated with wildfire occurrence nationwide, at different scales and across differing levels of wildland–urban interface development?