Megafires in a Warming World: What Wildfire Risk Factors Led to California’s Largest Recorded Wildfire by Kevin Varga, Charles Jones, Anna Trugman, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Neal McLoughlin, Daisuke Seto, Callum Thompson, Kristofer Daum

“…Massive wildfires and extreme fire behavior are becoming more frequent across the western United States, creating a need to better understand how megafire behavior will evolve in our warming world. …”
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Simulating Potential Impacts of Fuel Treatments on Fire Behavior and Evacuation Time of the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California by Daisuke Seto, Charles Jones, Anna T. Trugman, Kevin Varga, Andrew J. Plantinga, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Callum Thompson, Jacob Gellman, Kristofer Daum

“…Fuel break effectiveness in wildland-urban interface (WUI) is not well understood during downslope wind-driven fires even though various fuel treatments are conducted across the western United States. The aim of this paper is to examine the efficacy of WUI fuel breaks under the influence of strong winds and dry fuels, using the 2018 Camp Fire as a case study. …”
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Do Vegetation Fuel Reduction Treatments Alter Forest Fire Severity and Carbon Stability in California Forests? by Kristofer L. Daum, Winslow D. Hansen, Jacob Gellman, Andrew J. Plantinga, Charles Jones, Anna T. Trugman

“…Abstract Forest fire frequency, extent, and severity have rapidly increased in recent decades across the western United States (US) due to climate change and suppression‐oriented wildfire management. …”
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