Wildland urban interface fires are an important fire and emergency management
challenge. Research is needed to better define wildland urban interface fire
risk, model fire behavior in the interface between wildlands and communities,
understand community and structure susceptibility, and develop
such occurrence. Understanding and
predicting “megafires” is an area of intensive current research in the fire
science community and important to public safety. Collaborators include
fire scientists Steve Taylor and Mike Wotton and statisticians Steen
Magnussen, Douglas Woolford and Charmaine
