Recent years have seen a surge in interdisciplinary research aimed at improving wildfire evacuation policies and understanding human behaviour in emergencies. Scholars are now combining traffic ...

University of Nevada, Reno faculty offer a range of expertise related to wildfire science and wildfires' impacts on communities, ecosystems and watersheds around the world. Email the University ...

Climate change is responsible for thousands of wildfire-related deaths and $11 billion in associated losses every year, a new study finds. This key contributor to wildfire behavior has led to ...

NASA is studying the science of wildfires on the ground and in the air with their FireSense mission in an effort to better understand wildfire behavior and help response in the future. NBC News' Jacob ...

The wind and terrain can quickly change how a fire, like this one near Los Angeles in January 2025, behaves. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez When wildfires break out, fire crews count on fire-spotting ...

Wildfire-induced deterioration of air quality leads to increase in indoor activities fostering conditions conducive to airborne transmission. (HealthDay News) — Wildfire-induced deterioration of air ...

BOULDER, Colo. – A new tool from NOAA is the first to ever provide hourly updates on wildfire behavior, giving more accurate and timely predictions of wildfire activity. The tool, called the Hourly ...

Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

The wind and terrain can quickly change how a fire, like this one near Los Angeles in January 2025, behaves. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area ...

The orange glow on the horizon isn’t a sunset, and that smell of smoke isn’t from someone’s backyard barbecue. When a wildfire is heading toward your area, every decision you make in the next few ...

Wildfire-induced deterioration of air quality led to behavioral changes, and researchers found that even a modest increase of 10% in indoor mask-wearing could yield a significant reduction in the risk ...