Ecosystem-based approaches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It states that every $1 spent on targeted forest management and fuels removal can save up to $7 in future damages and costs.

Plant science researchers and the UConn Fire Department are using prescribed burns to mitigate brush fires and study the role of microbes in soil recovery to generate new insights to help Connecticut manage rising wildfire risk

This Teacher’s Pack supports the use of the Stop Disasters online game as a practical way to introduce disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience in the classroom.

While many forests have evolved to adapt to wildfires, more frequent and intense fires, plus increased pressures from climate change, are making even resilient forests more vulnerable.

Forest fires have risen sharply over the past decade. In the first half of 2024 alone, more than 5,000 incidents were recorded across 74 districts, with fires becoming more frequent, intense and difficult to control.

Prescribed burning emerged as a critical component of the Western Australia’s fire strategy. Research showed that under severe weather, fuel older than five years in jarrah forests and seven years in karri forests could carry uncontrollable crown fires.

Disaster response and recovery are most effective when community-led networks combine central coordination with reciprocal collaboration, highlighting the critical role of local social infrastructure in resilience.

This policy paper brings together insights and recommendations from a two-year review of Portugal’s wildfire management reforms following the extreme fires of 2017.

This paper is about how citizens in small, remote Nordic communities engage with climate adaptation through awareness, everyday practices, and local political action.

The expansive restructuring of the agency is irreversibly destructive to the federal scientific enterprise and leaves the nation to face growing climate threats with fewer experts predicting and managing wildfires.

This publication explores how Nagaland is building a more resilient and disaster-ready system through coordinated efforts involving government institutions, local communities, and international partners.

In the dry-season heat of northern Thailand, Hmong villagers zip through forested slopes, blasting tinder with leaf blowers and cutting through brush with machetes, while others scan for smoke on live feeds from their phones.

Extreme climate-related disasters create interconnected cascading impacts across sectors and regions, making it essential to improve global risk modelling and management systems.

The European Commission has introduced a new integrated wildfire strategy to address the growing scale and intensity of fires across Europe, driven largely by climate change.

This report presents the findings from the first of two activities conducted with the primary aim of gaining insights into the increasing threats posed by wildfire outbreaks to both forests and local communities in Thailand.

Indigenous communities face disproportionate wildfire impacts due to limited resources, jurisdictional gaps, and evacuation challenges. The article urges long-term funding, better coordination, and stronger prevention and mitigation efforts.

A team of researchers at the University of Washington and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) embarked on an ambitious, multiyear study of snowpack along Cle Elum Ridge, an area of the eastern Cascades in the headwaters of the Yakima River Basin.

Climate change is projected to significantly increase the frequency and intensity of extreme fire weather events across Australia, particularly in the fire-prone eucalyptus forests of southeast Australia.

Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analysed climate scenarios, according to an international study.

Research from The Nature Conservancy, the University of California, Berkeley and the USDA Forest Service details how wildfires could be leveraged to increase forest resilience to future high-severity fires across the Western United States.

In an era of changing risks, wildfires are one of the most visible signs. Learn how fire is a part of nature and how we can manage fire risk.

These five practical strategies can help reduce wildfire risk before the first flames flicker. Drawn from real-world examples, these action-oriented techniques show that effective preparation makes a real difference when wildfire season ignites.

SRSG Kamal Kishore shares some reflections on wildfire disasters, offering ten fundamentals for reducing wildfire risk.

This knowledge note provides a short overview of IWFRM approaches and select examples of different initiatives and approaches.

This report summarizes the results of a diagnostic review of wildfire risk and management capacity in Iceland, and includes technical recommendations that can guide policy discussions, decisions, and actions in the short term as well as the long term.

Researchers combined a literature review with stakeholder interviews to assess how wildfire technology innovations move from idea to field use and to identify when and how innovation stalls.

Developed in partnership with PwC, this white paper highlights that continuing to prioritize suppression and post-disaster response is no longer sufficient.

Growing up in Greece, wildfires were a constant presence each summer. Those experiences shaped my curiosity about how people could better respond to such disasters. Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and harder to manage worldwide.