Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

Year

Type

Firefighters holding hoses surround and keep watch on a small fire burning through dried grass in a desert canyon

Wildland Fire Research Funding Opportunity

09/03/2020

The Joint Fire Science Program is soliciting proposals from both government and non-government entities for research about a number of priority topics related to wildland fire.

Low flames burn through dried grass in a forest

Increasing use of prescribed fire: Barriers and opportunities (www.fs.usda.gov)

09/02/2020

New research finds that lack of adequate capacity and funding were the most commonly cited barriers to conducting prescribed fires.

Smoke rises from a fire burning in a coastal scrub landscape

A prescription for safety: burning in the wildland urban interface

08/18/2020

The use of prescribed fire is a valuable tool in preventing catastrophic wildfires and promoting natural ecological processes of fire dependent ecosystems. Prescribed fire is an important management tool utilized to fulfill the mission and goals of Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. It is used to restore and maintain biological integrity of refuge habitats and reducing threats to public health and safety from potential catastrophic wildfires in those communities near the wildland urban interface.

Majority of fires human-caused (www.blm.gov)

08/07/2020

The Bureau of Land Management - Idaho reports that over 75% of fires this year have been determined to be human-caused.

Prescribed fires & ticks (www.nrs.fs.fed.us)

08/06/2020

Recurrent prescribed fire may reduce tick populations and incidence of the lyme disease according to recent research from the USDA Forest Service.

Remapping LANDFIRE (www.usgs.gov)

08/05/2020

On this episode of the USGS "Eyes on Earth" Podcast, a discussion about recent efforts to remap the United States and improve the datasets available in LANDFIRE.

LANDFIRE remap marks major improvements (www.usgs.gov)

07/30/2020

LANDFIRE released the most significant upgrade in its 15-year history this week—the most comprehensive land cover dataset the program has ever produced. The LANDFIRE Remap for the conterminous United States includes new national base maps across the product suite, as well as a promise of improved accuracy and ease of use for what has become one of the most widely-cited data sources in the Nation, both in and outside of the fire science community.