We support proactive planning for future scenarios of wildland fire, including changes in fire simultaneity, seasonality, and severity.  We also examine the atmospheric drivers of these changes. Additionally, we have formed a collaboration with researchers from the University of Washington and University of California, Merced to provide solutions to wildfire related problems facing stakeholders including fire managers, fire ecologists, and land managers for tribal and US government agencies. This effort focuses on converging a number of disciplines including decision science, climate science, statistics, and fire science to provide actionable science. Additional information on this collaborative effort can be found here: Managing Future Risk of Increasing Simultaneous Megafires

We’ve also published code to calculate multiple fire weather indices from climate information: https://github.com/NCAR/fire-indices

Partners

• University of Washington
• University of California Merced