Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. More fires are burning at the wildland-urban ...

Andrew Bozzo explains why the box approach to incident command at wildland urban interface fires ensures that saving lives and protecting property are the top priorities. The drawing and the command ...

A research team led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has published ...

Los Angeles Builder Opens Active Construction Sites to Local Firefighters for Wildfire Training ...

UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute today announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI, or the ...

Saratoga City Council approved a new map that extends the boundary of the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to encapsulate Cal Fire’s changes to the city’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone map. Related ...

The City of Prescott plans to update its International Wildland-Urban Interface Code (IWUIC) this year. To educate and garner ...

Professor Janet Yang has been named co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, “FIRE-WUI: RECAP: A Robust, Efficient, and Community-Guided Framework for Smoke-Aware Prescribed Fire Planning ...

Firefighters in a vehicle rush toward a thick cloud of smoke generated by a wildfire. Firefighters battle the 2017 Knysna wildfires in South Africa. Credit: Associated Press A lot remains unknown ...

Colorado's new wildfire codes are prompting homeowners to make their exteriors more fire-resistant — this free program shows them how to start ...