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1. Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (3)

   Alison Deak , Jennifer E. Fawcett , Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Christopher Adlam, John R. Weir, Jeffery Stackhouse

2. The impacts of fire use in the Brazilian Amazon: a bibliometric analysis

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (4)

   Amanda Kesley Cardozo Cancio, Mayerly Alexandra Guerrero-Moreno , Everton Cruz da Silva, Fernando Abreu Oliveira, Karina Dias-Silva, James Ferreira Moura Jr, Thiago Almeida Vieira, Lenize Batista Calvão, Leandro Juen, José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior

3. Nationally consistent mapping of wildland fuel types across Australia using satellite-derived vegetation structural data

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (5)

   Rakesh C. Joshi, Miguel G. Cruz , Randall J. Donohue

4. Factors enabling fire management outcomes in Indigenous Savanna fire management projects in Western Australia

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (9)

   Tom Vigilante, Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation , Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation , Wilinggin Aboriginal Corporation , Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal Corporation , Catherine Goonack, Desmond Williams, Aidan Joseph, Leigh-Ann Woolley, Rohan Fisher

5. Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 2021

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (7)

   Amy Cardinal Christianson, Lynn M. Johnston, Jacqueline A. Oliver, David Watson, David Young, Heather MacDonald, John Little, Bruce Macnab, Noemie Gonzalez Bautista

6. Numerical investigation of the effect of wind, slope and fuel moisture on the radiative and convective heating of excelsior fuels

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (4)

   M. S. Sadeghi, Maryam Ghodrat , Duncan Sutherland, Albert Simeoni, Jason Sharples , Harald Kleine

7. Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (2)

   Shanti Kumari, Shailja Mamgain, Arijit Roy, H. C. Prince

8. An offline coupling of fire spread models to simulate the 2021 Marshall Fire

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

   Fernando Szasdi-Bardales , Kasra Shamsaei , Timothy W. Juliano, Branko Kosovic, Hamed Ebrahimian , Negar Elhami-Khorasani

9. Pyrogeographic analysis of drivers of lightning-ignited wildfires in Tasmania

   International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (5)

   Amila M. K. Wickramasinghe , Lynda D. Prior , Grant J. Williamson , Matthias M. Boer , David M. J. S. Bowman

10. Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (7)

    Mika Peace , Lachlan McCaw

11. A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (7)

    Miguel G. Cruz

12. Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (2)

    Hanwen Guo, Yunji Gao, Ziqun Ye, Zhengyuan Yang, Yuchun Zhang, Zijian Lei, Ao Sun

13. Integrating an urban fire model into an operational wildland fire model to simulate one dimensional wildland–urban interface fires: a parametric study

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (10)

    Dwi M. J. Purnomo, Yiren Qin , Maria Theodori, Maryam Zamanialaei, Chris Lautenberger, Arnaud Trouvé, Michael J. Gollner

14. Simulating wildfire spread based on continuous time series remote sensing images and cellular automata

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Huajian Zhuang, Naian Liu, Xiaodong Xie, Xuan Xu, Mengmeng Li, Yang Zhang, Rui Wang

15. Modelling and mapping burn severity of prescribed and wildfires across the southeastern United States (2000–2022)

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (1)

    Melanie K. Vanderhoof , Casey E. Menick, Joshua J. Picotte, Kevin M. Robertson, Holly K. Nowell, Chris Matechik, Todd J. Hawbaker

16. Fire for the future: governance of market-based savanna fire management projects in Arnhem Land, northern Australia

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (12)

    Taegan Calnan , Dean Yibarbuk, Jeremy Russell-Smith

17. Comparing modeled soil temperature and moisture dynamics during prescribed fires, slash-pile burns and wildfires

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (4)

    Peter R. Robichaud , William J. Massman, Anthony Bova, Antonio Girona-García , Andoni Alfaro-Leranoz , Nancy E. Gibson

18. Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 34 (5)

    Elisha Duxbury, Kirstie Fryirs , Michelle R. Leishman,

19. A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (12)

    Kennedy Korkola, Melanie Wheatley, Jennifer Beverly , Patrick M. A. James, Mike Wotton

20. Changing large wildfire dynamics in the wildland–urban interface of the eastern United States

    International Journal of Wildland Fire 33 (12)

    Noah C. Weidig , Carissa L. Wonkka, Michaella A. Ivey, Victoria M. Donovan

Collections

Collections are a curation of articles relevant to a topical research area

Savanna Burning

As demonstrated in Australian savannas, reducing carbon emissions through active fire management can generate tradable carbon credits providing income and employment opportunities for Indigenous and remote communities, and support biodiversity conservation. The success of this management approach has led to suggestions that it can be extended to other continents, for notable example in southern Africa and South America. This special issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire aims to explore the status of technical challenges, opportunities and potential livelihood and ecological benefits, associated with applying market-based fire management approaches in severely fire-impacted tropical savanna systems.

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025

Fire and Climate

This Special Collection on “Fire and Climate” showcases papers from and inspired by the eponymous conferences hosted by the International Association of Wildland Fire. The collection explores the way that climate change is affecting wildfire around the world – and the ways that changes in societal, legal, and political climate changes interact with these geophysical processes.

Guest Editor
Eric B. Kenedy (York University, Canada)

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024

Australian Fire Danger Rating System

This Collection in International Journal of Wildland Fire presents a series of papers that describe the development of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System (AFDRS). This new system was conceived following a review of existing Australian fire danger rating systems and associated danger categories in 2014. It was implemented in 2022 and has since been modified to improve performance, accuracy, and public-facing requirements.

Guest Editor
Paulo Fernandez (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal)

Last Updated: 04 Jul 2024

Celebrating 30 Years of Wildland Fire Science Publication

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of International Journal of Wildland Fire (IJWF), the official journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF), we have put together this Collection that includes a selection of review papers published in IJWF over the past 12 years, a compilation that highlights the wide range of disciplines in wildland fire research. In line with our commitment to diversity, authors and co-authors come from at least seven countries, and the corresponding authors on six of the 15 papers are female. We invite you to explore the full breadth of topics included in this Collection.

Collection Editors
Susan G. Conard, Stefan Doerr, and Jenny Foster

Last Updated: 27 May 2021

25 Years of International Journal of Wildland Fire

To celebrate 25 years of publication of International Journal of Wildland Fire, we present this Collection that includes some of the most-cited Research Papers we have published over the years. This Collection includes two papers from each five-year period, starting in 1991. One of these is the paper from each period that has received the most citations to date. To highlight the geographic scope of IJWF publications, the second paper is the most-cited paper where the lead author is from a different country than the highest-cited one.

Last Updated: 05 Dec 2016

Atmospheric Research

This Collection of International Journal of Wildland Fire covers the theme of Atmospheric Research, and was launched to coincide with the 2016 International Smoke Symposium (Long Beach, California) and the AGU Fall Meeting (San Francisco, California). This collection showcases a diverse array of topics from a variety of geographical areas, including methods for tracking, modelling and inventory, social implications, climate implications, current and future research needs, and practical field management techniques for smoke.

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2016