Ecosystem-based approaches

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.

Study finds that rapid root-zone soil moisture depletion during flash droughts is more strongly linked to accelerated wildfire spread than conventional drought conditions across the United States.

New research is dismantling the long-standing myth of the "pristine" Amazon. A reconstruction of 10,000 years of Amazonian pyrogeography shows that fire in the rainforest is almost exclusively a human-driven phenomenon, not a natural one.

Seattle-based study is one of the first to examine wildfire smoke risk in childcare environments by studying how providers access information, perceive risks, implement protective actions, and if preferred strategies differ from current practices.

Using a case study involving residents, First Nations communities and local organisations, this paper explores how community-led co-design was enacted in local recovery across four wildfire-affected regions in Australia.

Polish researcher warned putting out every forest fire could paradoxically increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires by allowing combustible vegetation to build up, arguing that controlled burning should be considered as part of fire protection.

Research shows that fast-moving forest fires burn more severely, making it harder for forests to recover.

Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia, and Salish baskets had disappeared with them. More than 30 band members had lost their homes, naspəpʕásəs Dan Wilson said, along with around 200 homes and other structures belonging to non-band members.

The Community-Based Beneficial Fire Data Project compares statewide data from 2024 and 2025, documenting a movement that is growing, strengthening, and expanding to care for California’s landscapes through cultural and prescribed fire.

This paper presents the results of the ICARIA Horizon Europe risk-assessment framework and web-based Decision Support System (DSS) that were applied in the Southern Aegean Region (Greece)

Wildfire misinformation spreads fastest in the hours right after a fire breaks out — checking a claim against a credible source before sharing it is the simplest way to slow it down.

A paper published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences in April 2026 uses the 2025 California wildfires as a starting point to discuss broader systemic failures in disaster risk reduction (DRR).

As regulations have reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions from vehicles and industry in recent years, smoke from climate-fueled wildfires is erasing air quality gains.

Places with established preparedness programs experience fewer accidental ignitions, detect fires earlier, and evacuate people effectively. UK therefore needs to complement future national wildfire service with a comprehensive community-based program.

Effective wildfire mitigation requires coordinated action across homes, communities, and landscapes, with community-scale action playing a leading role in reducing overall risk.

More than 3 million hectares have burned to date in Canada (August 2016) prompting a Level 4 National Preparedness response.

Three large wildfires raced through neighborhoods in and around Spokane, Washington, the weekend of Aug. 1, 2026, destroying at least 600 homes and other structures and threatening many more.

UC Berkeley-led research indicates that continued climate change could severely increase wildfire above natural levels in Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Lassen Volcanic National Parks.

With risk levels high across much of Switzerland, an expert explains why the wildfire season started early in Europe this year and what can help the situation.

In France, the fires originated near the Atlantic coast on 22 and 23 July but have since spread inland, becoming particularly destructive in the Gironde department around Bordeaux.

This region is no stranger to fire, analysis shows these wildfires are off the charts. A very hot summer primed many areas for fire. When they ignited, they spread ferociously. The area of land burned in France is 40% larger than the previous record year.

Peatlands are crucial carbon stores. When peat dries out and burns, the consequences can be disastrous: incinerated soils, smouldering wetlands, air pollution and massive carbon emissions. Surprisingly, peat fires in dry Australia aren’t always a problem.

When two major wildfires burned through the Sierra Nevada in 2020 and 2021, they took thousands of giant sequoia trees with them. Without prescribed burns, thousands more would have died, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.

Chiefs in Ontario say they were left to self-evacuate before homes burned to ground, after being told there was no imminent threat.

The impacts of climate change are escalating, compounded by urban expansion into fire-prone areas. Eight cutting-edge technologies have the potential to revolutionize wildfire risk reduction strategies.

More than 900 wildfires are burning throughout Canada, with devastating impacts for First Nations. Thirteen Nations remain under evacuation orders that have forced 2,182 people from their homes.

For millennia, fire was humanity's greatest tool. Today, it’s one of our greatest threats. Recovering control will require learning from the past while confronting the political choices of the present.

This report reveals that supporting First Nations women in fire and land management is a critical, yet untapped, strategy for protecting Australian communities from escalating climate disasters.

As El Niño intensifies, evidence from across the Amazon basin shows why Amazon wildfire prevention depends on Indigenous knowledge and fire governance built from the territories up.

In the summer of 2021, the hills of northeastern Algeria disappeared behind walls of smoke. Wildfires swept through Béjaïa, El Tarf, and Tizi Ouzou with a speed and ferocity that overwhelmed communities and firefighters alike.

The report draws attention to Australia’s workforce of First Nations women in fire and land management, and highlights the profound positive impacts that culturally responsive professional development programs can have on this cohort.

Forest fires now burn ten times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In California, 30 times more acreage burned from high-severity, forest-killing fires, according to new UCLA research.

A Stanford-led study based on two decades of satellite data finds California could cut deadly pollution from wildfire smoke by 20% in active fire years by expanding use of prescribed fire in conifer forests each year.

It contains advice on how to organize preparedness days, community events to prepare for the risk of forest fires, with a special emphasis on dialogue between residents of these risk areas, public authorities and emergency services.

Invitation for researchers, students, and practitioners worldwide to contribute compelling, high-resolution photographs that advance the visual communication of wildland fire science and management across all relevant disciplines.

The 1952 bushfires in New South Wales (NSW) stand as one of the most significant events in Australia’s bushfire history, not for their death toll, but for the enduring lessons they offered in fire management and mitigation.

This paper aims to enhance understanding of wildfire risk (WFR) governance, by identifying patterns and characteristics of cross-sectoral collaborations, and to inform integrated WFR governance strategies across Europe.

It’s well-established that prescribed fire and other fuel-reduction treatments can create significant ecological benefits and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire.

The study investigates how the largest wildfire in Sweden's recent history, the 2014 wildfire in Västmanland County, affected nearby housing prices and time-on-market.

In addition to preventing an estimated 2.7 million tons of carbon emissions and $2.8 billion in damages, UC Davis researchers determined that fuel treatments prevented nearly 60 premature deaths.

This publication explores how generative language models combine social media, news and weather data to detect disasters quickly and accurately, using satellite data to validate results from flood and wildfire case studies.

ASU researchers turn to fungi as a cost-effective, sustainable way to stabilize land after a fire.

The region records nearly 1,300 forest fire incidents annually on average.

Research shows every $1 the U.S. Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.

The scars left by the 2020 Cameron Peak and East Troublesome fires remain stark: blackened hillsides, closed trails and bare slopes where forests once stood. Tthe fires caused significant and lasting declines in visitation at the burned sites.

A study connects satellite data on vegetation condition, topography, and weather conditions to examine the predicted versus actual burn severity of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.

General insurer IAG has renewed its partnership with the Aboriginal Carbon Foundation (AbCF), supporting AbCF on its mission to increase awareness and adoption of cultural land management to strengthen community resilience in a changing climate.

The European Commission’s Communication on integrated wildfire risk management sets out a comprehensive framework to address wildfire risk through a coordinated, multi-level approach aligned with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

This paper provides an overview of the systemic pathways of fire impacts, available remote-sensing-derived fire products and modelling efforts.

This report provides a groundbreaking new synthesis of the economic and fiscal risks arising from physical climate change and the economic case for investing in adaptation to climate impacts.