International Journal of Wildland Fire

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour65
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression46
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach45
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume36
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements35
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires29
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States29
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient29
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada28
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning28
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public28
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels25
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia25
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia25
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland23
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers22
An approach to integrated data management for three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour model evaluation21
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios21
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression21
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger19
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia19
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†19
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation18
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold18
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk18
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE17
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada17
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study16
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation16
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning16
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios16
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds16
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments15
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 215
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement15
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents14
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 1)14
Characterising spatial clusters of forest fire activity in the Western Himalayan region of India: implications for conservation and management14
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach14
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The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour14
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present14
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)14
Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland14
Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires13
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)13
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions13
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition13
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 202113
Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†12
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia12
Short- and long-term effects of surface fires on heat stress protein content in Scots pine needles12
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data12
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Can the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS)-1978 of the United States be effective in other regions? Israel as a case study11
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models11
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach11
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia11
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area11
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†11
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems11
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India10
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables10
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia10
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes10
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season10
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors10
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?10
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios10
Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia10
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (9
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands9
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia9
Comparing calibrated statistical and machine learning methods for wildland fire occurrence prediction: a case study of human-caused fires in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada9
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†9
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments9
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?9
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed9
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update8
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Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region8
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A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants8
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!8
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions8
Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia8
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV78
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers8
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework8
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research7
A note on fire weather indices7
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem7
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations7
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria7
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy7
Residual forest structure influences behaviour of Pacific marten (7
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States7
Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico7
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery7
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene7
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions6
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour6
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change6
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees6
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 2)6
Do you CBI what I see? The relationship between the Composite Burn Index and quantitative field measures of burn severity varies across gradients of forest structure6
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia6
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery6
Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity6
Fireline path optimisation in a heterogeneous forest landscape5
A national accounting framework for fire and carbon dynamics in Australian savannas5
Simplifying emissions modelling from wildland fires: laboratory-scale emission factors are independent of fine woody debris fuel load5
Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon5
Protea maturation rates and fire return intervals in a mediterranean ecosystem: testing the rules of thumb at a local scale5
Performance of operational fire spread models in California5
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KAPAS II: simulation of peatland wildfires with daily variations of peat moisture content5
Comparing two methods to measure oxidative pyrolysis gases in a wind tunnel and in prescribed burns5
Resurfacing of underground peat fire: smouldering transition to flaming wildfire on litter surface5
Insights on the dynamics of Miombo woody vegetation in Niassa Special Reserve, northern Mozambique5
A conservation-significant threatened mammal uses fire exclusions and shifts ranges in the presence of prescribed burning5
Climate and weather drivers in southern California Santa Ana Wind and non-Santa Wind fires5
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada5
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities5
Understanding fire regimes in Europe5
Changing large wildfire dynamics in the wildland–urban interface of the eastern United States5
Framework for a savanna burning emissions abatement methodology applicable to fire-prone miombo woodlands in southern Africa5
Enhancing fire emissions inventories for acute health effects studies: integrating high spatial and temporal resolution data5
Phosphorus chemistry in plant charcoal: interplay between biomass composition and thermal condition5
Laboratory benchmark of low-cost portable gas and particle analysers at the source of smouldering wildfires5
Estimating Mediterranean stand fuel characteristics using handheld mobile laser scanning technology4
A novel methodology to assess fuel treatment effectiveness: application to California’s forests4
Linking crown fire likelihood with post-fire spectral variability in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems4
Slope effect on junction fire with two non-symmetric fire fronts4
A high-fidelity ensemble simulation framework for interrogating wildland-fire behaviour and benchmarking machine learning models4
Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments4
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Vegetation phenology as a key driver for fire occurrence in the UK and comparable humid temperate regions4
Prescribed burning on private land: reflections on recent law reform in Australia and California4
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Individual tree detection and classification from RGB satellite imagery with applications to wildfire fuel mapping and exposure assessments4
Modelling sorption processes of 10-h dead Pinus pinaster branches4
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States4
The process of vegetation recovery and burn probability changes in post-burn boreal forests in northeast China4
The distributed strategy for asynchronous observations in data-driven wildland fire spread prediction4
Predicting burn severity for integration with post-fire debris-flow hazard assessment: a case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA4
Assessing the predictive efficacy of six machine learning algorithms for the susceptibility of Indian forests to fire4
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France4
Physics-based modelling for mapping firebrand flux and heat load on structures in the wildland–urban interface4
Before the fire: predicting burn severity and potential post-fire debris-flow hazards to conservation populations of the Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii pleuriticus)4
Reconstructing seasonal fire danger in southeastern Australia using tree rings4
Characterisation of initial fire weather conditions for large spring wildfires in Alberta, Canada4
Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour4
Coupled fire-atmosphere simulation of the 2018 Camp Fire using WRF-Fire4
Impacts of changing fire regimes on hollow-bearing trees in south-eastern Australia4
Fire and habitat variables explain reptile community abundance and richness in subtropical open eucalypt forests4
Unpacking the pluralism paradox: collaborative governance outcomes in jurisdictionally complex environments4
A flammability phenology for dry mixed heaths and its implications for modelling fire behaviour4
Transitioning operational satellite grassland curing from MODIS to VIIRS4
Cross-landscape fuel moisture differences impact simulated fire behaviour4
Pattern recognition and modelling of virulent wildfires in Spain4
Post-wildfire contamination of soils and sediments by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in north-central British Columbia, Canada4
Influence of fuel data assumptions on wildfire exposure assessment of the built environment4
Fuel-aware forest fire danger rating system RISICO: a comparative study for Italy4
Accounting for among-sampler variability improves confidence in fuel moisture content field measurements3
Influence of combined hydric and thermal stresses on Rosmarinus officinalis and Cistus albidus3
Evaluation and comparison of simple empirical models for dead fuel moisture content3
Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus3
Comparing geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite sensor estimates of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) during the Black Summer Fires (2019–2020) in south-eastern Australia3
Neighbourhood bushfire hazard, community risk perception and preparedness in peri-urban Hobart, Australia3
Book Review3
Parametric evaluation of heat transfer mechanisms in a WUI fire scenario3
Vegetation-derived pyrogenic carbon degradation and stabilisation in UK peatlands†3
Special issue editorial team3
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 3)3
The impacts of fire use in the Brazilian Amazon: a bibliometric analysis3
An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests3
Burning poop: chemical composition and carbon dynamics of large herbivore dung burned in African savanna fires3
Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires3
Comparing modeled soil temperature and moisture dynamics during prescribed fires, slash-pile burns and wildfires3
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Effect of fire severity and presence of bamboo (Chusquea culeou) on soil chemical properties in Andean Patagonian forests of Argentina3
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A case-study of wildland fire management knowledge exchange: the barriers and facilitators in the development and integration of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System in Ontario, Canada3
Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam3
Reburning pyrogenic organic matter: a laboratory method for dosing dynamic heat fluxes from above3
Visibility-informed mapping of potential firefighter lookout locations using maximum entropy modelling3
Remote sensing applications for prescribed burn research3
Ingesting GOES-16 fire radiative power retrievals into Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke)3
Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions3
Evaluation of new methods for drought estimation in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System3
Rivers up in smoke: impacts of Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires on riparian systems3
From flexibility to feasibility: identifying the policy conditions that support the management of wildfire for objectives other than full suppression3
A high-resolution large-eddy simulation framework for wildland fire predictions using TensorFlow3
Preventing wildfires with fire permits in rural Edson, Alberta3
Climate forcing of regional fire years in the upper Great Lakes Region, USA3
Wind vector change and fire weather index in New Zealand as a modified metric in evaluating fire danger3
Contemporary (1984–2020) fire history metrics for the conterminous United States and ecoregional differences by land ownership2
Deep peat fire persistently smouldering for weeks: a laboratory demonstration2
Spot ignition of a wildland fire and its transition to propagation2
Response to ‘Fire practices only ‘best’ if they promote a large seed buildup: comment on the conservation needs of a fire-killed grevillea’ (Lamont 2022)2
Quantifying burned area of wildfires in the western United States from polar-orbiting and geostationary satellite active-fire detections2
Experimental study of the burning characteristics of dead forest fuels2
Study on the ground fraction of air tankers2
Burnover events identified during the 2018 Camp Fire2
Mapping fire hazard potential in Kazakhstan: a machine learning and remote sensing perspective2
Comparing particulate morphology generated from human-made cellulosic fuels to natural vegetative fuels2
Corrigendum to: Extending methods for assessing fuel hazard in temperate Australia to enhance data quality and consistency2
Pyros: a raster–vector spatial simulation model for predicting wildland surface fire spread and growth2
Using PODs to integrate fire and fuels planning2
Smoke emissions from the extreme wildfire events in central Portugal in October 20172
Simulation-based high-resolution fire danger mapping using deep learning2
Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires2
Tree height is more important than bark thickness, leaf habit or habitat preference to survive fire in the cerrado of south-east Brazil2
Anthropogenic fire practices only ‘best’ if they promote a large seed buildup: comment on the conservation needs of a fire-killed grevillea2
A framework for defining fire danger to support fire management operations in Australia†2
Forest fire progress monitoring using dual-polarisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images combined with multi-scale segmentation and unsupervised classification2
Long-term post-fire succession of reptiles in an urban remnant in south-western Australia2
Dynamics of standing dead wood and severe fire in north Australian savannas: implications for carbon management2
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Spatial correlates of forest and land fires in Indonesia2
Linking fire radiative power to land cover, fire history, and environmental setting in Alaska, 2003–20222
Fire whirls induced by a line fire on a windward slope: a laboratory-scale study2
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis2
Australian Fire Danger Rating System Research Prototype: a climatology†2
Field and full-scale laboratory testing of prototype wildland fire shelters2
Co-management during crisis: insights from jurisdictionally complex wildfires2
Signs of resilience in resprouting2
Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)2
An exploratory analysis of forest fine fuel consumption and accumulation using forest inventory data and fire history2
Seasonal litter decomposition and accumulation in north Australian savanna2
The relationship between wind speed and satellite measurements of fire radiative power2
A bottom–up savanna fire fuel consumption inventory and its application to savanna burning in Kafue National Park, Zambia2
Examining the influence of mid-tropospheric conditions and surface wind changes on extremely large fires and fire growth days2
Recent change of burned area associated with summer heat extremes over Iberia2
Loss of soil carbon in a world heritage peatland following a bushfire2
Factors influencing ember accumulation near a building2
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