Wildfires are causing increasing destruction to the built environment, leading to injuries and loss of life, and devastating sensitive ecosystems. Although wildland fire can be beneficial and is required for the health of many natural environments, climate change and urban sprawl continue to exacerbate the global risk of high-severity, high-consequence fires.
Accruing evidence indicates that communities in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are under threat of exposure to fire and are frequently ill-prepared to withstand its effects. Harmful smoke emissions can reach well beyond the perimeter of the fire and impact human health, livelihood, and the environment. Thus, without interventions, the negative impacts from wildland fires will be exacerbated in WUI communities in the coming years.
As wildland-urban fires are a rapidly growing challenge, there is a dire need for transdisciplinary approaches to fire safety and mitigation.
At Blaze Engineering we are committed to an interdisciplinary approach to wildfire risk. By covering meteorology, vegetation, and fire science under one umbrella, we use innovative methodology to convert data into meaningful input for firefighting agencies, public utilities, and other special interest groups to inform on wildfire risk. Some examples of this include: