International Journal of Wildland Fire

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Wildland Fire is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Projecting live fuel moisture content via deep learning66
Fuelling future fires: predicting variation in fuel hazard and availability across an environmental gradient48
Evaluating the Drought Code for lowland taiga of Interior Alaska using eddy covariance measurements47
Understanding variability in heat yields of wet sclerophyll forest fuels40
Compiling historical descriptions of past Indigenous cultural burning: a dataset for the eastern United States38
Influence of fuel structure on gorse fire behaviour31
Fire on a tropical floodplain: a fine-scale fire history of coastal floodplains in the Northern Territory, Australia30
Understanding the challenges in bushfire map use and effective decision-making amongst the Australian public30
Assessment of wildland firefighter opinions and experiences related to incident medical providers29
Observations of a rotating pyroconvective plume29
GAMBUT field measurement of emissions from a tropical peatland fire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression27
Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada25
GAMBUT field experiment of peatland wildfires in Sumatra: from ignition to spread and suppression24
Prescribed fire increases forage mineral content in grazed rangeland24
Systematising experts’ understanding of traditional burning in Portugal: a mental model approach23
Non-parametric comparative analysis of the spatiotemporal pattern of human-caused and natural wildfires in Galicia23
Testing simple approaches to map sediment mobilisation hotspots after wildfires22
The Duff Moisture Code and the limits of sustainable combustion: examining the evidence for a widely used threshold21
A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada20
The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: exploring unnecessary exposure to risk20
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas: part 1 – co-creation of land management scenarios20
Effects of the wildfires in August 2021 on the air quality of Athens through a numerical simulation19
LPG stored at the wildland–urban interface: recent events and the effects of jet fires and BLEVE19
Associations between Australian climate drivers and extreme weekly fire danger18
Shifting conflict into collaboration: peatland fires mitigation in the biosphere conservation transition zone in Sumatra, Indonesia18
Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System†17
Converging and diverging burn rates in North American boreal forests from the Little Ice Age to the present17
Fire severity and plant productivity recovery in a mixed grass prairie wildfire driven by extreme winds16
On the intermittent nature of forest fire spread – Part 2†16
Comparing gas composition from fast pyrolysis of live foliage measured in bench-scale and fire-scale experiments16
BARA: cellular automata simulation of multidimensional smouldering in peat with horizontally varying moisture contents16
Wildfire aerial thermal image segmentation using unsupervised methods: a multilayer level set approach16
Effects of fuel bed structure on heat transfer mechanisms within and above porous fuel beds in quiescent flame spread scenarios16
Evaluating wildfire vulnerability of Mediterranean dwellings using fuzzy logic applied to expert judgement16
Evaluating the relationships between wildfires and drought using machine learning15
Firebrand burning under wind: an experimental study15
Sand and fire: applying the sandpile model of self-organised criticality to wildfire mitigation†15
Comprehensive methodology for tracking burning firebrands in a vertical wind tunnel using multi-view video analysis15
The role of helicity and fire–atmosphere turbulent energy transport in potential wildfire behaviour14
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Physics-based simulations of grassfire propagation on sloped terrain at field scale: flame dynamics, mode of fire propagation and heat fluxes†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
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: special issue introduction (Part 4)14
Calculating fire danger of cured grasslands in temperate climates – the elements of the Grassland Fire Index (GLFI)14
Can ash from smoldering fires increase peatland soil pH?14
Restoring fire management to Australian deserts: progress after a decade of burning14
Risk perceptions after wildfires: insights from Bijie, China and comparisons with other countries13
Wildland fire evacuations in Canada from 1980 to 202113
Review of thermal behaviour of firebrands and their role in fuel bed and structure ignition13
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Impact of fire suppressant on seed germination and seedling emergence of native and introduced flora from a Western Australian eucalypt woodland13
Interaction between two parallel fire fronts under different wind conditions13
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Field-based generic empirical flame length–fireline intensity relationships for wildland surface fires13
Between a rock and a hot place: do surface shelters facilitate survivable conditions for small vertebrates during prescribed fire?12
Shoot flammability patterns among plant species of the wildland–urban interface in the fire-prone Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area12
The response of reptiles and mammals to fire-driven vegetation succession in semi-arid Triodia-mallee woodlands12
Fire mosaics in south-west Australian forest landscapes12
An evaluation of empirical and statistically based smoke plume injection height parametrisations used within air quality models12
Sub-hourly forecasting of fire potential using machine learning on time series of surface weather variables11
Burned vegetation recovery trajectory and its driving factors using satellite remote-sensing datasets in the Great Xing’An forest region of Inner Mongolia11
Predicting daily initial attack aircraft targets in British Columbia11
Can the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS)-1978 of the United States be effective in other regions? Israel as a case study11
Fire weather severity in southern Africa is increasing faster and more extensively in the late than in the early dry season11
The 1986 Annaburroo experimental grassland fires: data11
Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype†11
Exploring the influence of the Keetch–Byram Drought Index and McArthur’s Drought Factor on wildfire incidence in Victoria, Australia11
Modelling chamise fuel moisture content across California: a machine learning approach11
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems11
Development of gas signatures of smouldering peat wildfire from emission factors10
Developing an impact index for the Australian Fire Danger Rating System: predicting potential structure loss from wildfires10
An integrated framework for habitat restoration in fire-prone areas. Part 2 – fire hazard assessment of the different land management scenarios10
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments10
Future fire events are likely to be worse than climate projections indicate – these are some of the reasons why10
Quantifying the flammability of living plants at the branch scale: which metrics to use?10
Decadal scale fire dynamics in savannas and forests of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India10
Detecting burnt severity and vegetation regrowth classes using a change vector analysis approach: a case study in the southern part of Sumatra, Indonesia9
Numerical simulation of aerial liquid drops of Canadair CL-415 and Dash-8 airtankers9
Pre-fire assessment of post-fire debris-flow hazards in the Santa Fe Municipal Watershed9
Nature-based solutions to wildfires in rural landscapes of Southern Europe: let’s be fire-smart!9
A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants9
Impact of wildfire smoke, heat stress and sleep deprivation on the brain health of wildland firefighters9
Making choices: prioritising the protection of biodiversity in wildfires9
Live trial performance of the Australian Fire Danger Rating System – Research Prototype†9
A phenology-driven fire danger index for northern grasslands9
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Archetypes and change in wildfire risk perceptions, behaviours and intentions among adults in Tasmania, Australia9
Tree spatial pattern and mortality prediction in burned patches of Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii Rupr.) forest that experienced a mixed-severity wildfire9
Early forest flame and smoke detection based on improved feature extraction module with enhanced image processing inspired by YOLOV79
Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update9
Review of approaches and challenges for the validation of satellite-based active fire products in savannah ecosystems9
Crown fire initiation of a thunderstorm9
A note on fire weather indices8
Suppression resources and their influence on containment of forest fires in Victoria8
Atmospheric turbulence and wildland fires: a review8
LEF-YOLO: a lightweight method for intelligent detection of four extreme wildfires based on the YOLO framework8
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Impact of fire return interval on pyrogenic carbon stocks in a tropical savanna, North Queensland, Australia8
Social science to advance wildfire adaptation in the southwestern United States: a review and future research directions8
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Five Suns. A Fire History of Mexico8
Three fuel models for predicting urban fire spread – a stopgap for emergency management in the US8
Fireline production rate of handcrews in wildfires of the Spanish Mediterranean region8
Roles and experiences of non-governmental organisations in wildfire response and recovery8
Characterizing fire history on military land using machine learning and landsat imagery7
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 structure7
Burning from the ground up: the structure and impact of Prescribed Burn Associations in the United States7
Reviewing Stephen J. Pyne’s To the Last Smoke series: putting the people in the pyrocene7
Fatigue in wildland firefighting: relationships between sleep, shift characteristics, and cognitive function7
Residual forest structure influences behaviour of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) on post-fire landscapes7
Experimental and numerical fire behaviour analysis in Eucalyptus globulus trees7
Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap7
A comment on the use of visually assessed fuel hazard ratings and scores for Australian fire management and research7
Non-additive effects on plant mixtures flammability in a tropical mountain ecosystem7
Conifer encroachment increases foliar moisture content in a northwestern California oak woodland7
A comparison of smoke modelling tools used to mitigate air quality impacts from prescribed burning7
Intermittent fireline behaviour over porous vegetative media in different crossflow conditions6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour6
Understanding fire regimes in Europe6
Comparing two methods to measure oxidative pyrolysis gases in a wind tunnel and in prescribed burns6
Consistent, high-accuracy mapping of daily and sub-daily wildfire growth with satellite observations6
An evaluation of wildland fire simulators used operationally in Australia6
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A national accounting framework for fire and carbon dynamics in Australian savannas6
Performance of operational fire spread models in California6
Increasing fire danger in the Netherlands due to climate change6
Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy6
Resurfacing of underground peat fire: smouldering transition to flaming wildfire on litter surface6
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 2)6
Enhancing fire emissions inventories for acute health effects studies: integrating high spatial and temporal resolution data6
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Regional drought synchronised historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada6
Fuel-aware forest fire danger rating system RISICO: a comparative study for Italy5
A conservation-significant threatened mammal uses fire exclusions and shifts ranges in the presence of prescribed burning5
Exploring the impact of airtanker drops on in-stand temperature and relative humidity5
Climate and weather drivers in southern California Santa Ana Wind and non-Santa Wind fires5
Fireline path optimisation in a heterogeneous forest landscape5
Collective action for managing wildfire risk across boundaries in forest and range landscapes: lessons from case studies in the western United States5
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Modelling sorption processes of 10-h dead Pinus pinaster branches5
Reconstructing seasonal fire danger in southeastern Australia using tree rings5
Individual tree detection and classification from RGB satellite imagery with applications to wildfire fuel mapping and exposure assessments5
Coupled fire-atmosphere simulation of the 2018 Camp Fire using WRF-Fire5
Organisational influence on the co-production of fire science: overcoming challenges and realising opportunities5
Phosphorus chemistry in plant charcoal: interplay between biomass composition and thermal condition5
Strategies to reduce wildfire smoke in frequently impacted communities in south-western Oregon5
Atmospheric turbulent structures and fire sweeps during shrub fires and implications for flaming zone behaviour5
Linking crown fire likelihood with post-fire spectral variability in Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems5
Learning from Wildfire Decision Support: large language model analysis of barriers to fire spread in a census of large wildfires in the United States (2011–2023)5
Simplifying emissions modelling from wildland fires: laboratory-scale emission factors are independent of fine woody debris fuel load5
Insights on the dynamics of Miombo woody vegetation in Niassa Special Reserve, northern Mozambique5
Estimating Mediterranean stand fuel characteristics using handheld mobile laser scanning technology5
Laboratory benchmark of low-cost portable gas and particle analysers at the source of smouldering wildfires5
KAPAS II: simulation of peatland wildfires with daily variations of peat moisture content5
Influence of fuel data assumptions on wildfire exposure assessment of the built environment5
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
Impacts of changing fire regimes on hollow-bearing trees in south-eastern Australia5
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)5
Cross-landscape fuel moisture differences impact simulated fire behaviour5
From flexibility to feasibility: identifying the policy conditions that support the management of wildfire for objectives other than full suppression4
Assessing the predictive efficacy of six machine learning algorithms for the susceptibility of Indian forests to fire4
Fire and habitat variables explain reptile community abundance and richness in subtropical open eucalypt forests4
Slope effect on junction fire with two non-symmetric fire fronts4
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The process of vegetation recovery and burn probability changes in post-burn boreal forests in northeast China4
A novel methodology to assess fuel treatment effectiveness: application to California’s forests4
Forest fire and its key drivers in the tropical forests of northern Vietnam4
Transitioning operational satellite grassland curing from MODIS to VIIRS4
Parametric evaluation of heat transfer mechanisms in a WUI fire scenario4
Preventing wildfires with fire permits in rural Edson, Alberta4
Wind vector change and fire weather index in New Zealand as a modified metric in evaluating fire danger4
A high-fidelity ensemble simulation framework for interrogating wildland-fire behaviour and benchmarking machine learning models4
Disentangling the factors of spatio-temporal patterns of wildfire activity in south-eastern France4
Pattern recognition and modelling of virulent wildfires in Spain4
Vegetation phenology as a key driver for fire occurrence in the UK and comparable humid temperate regions4
Effect of fire severity and presence of bamboo (Chusquea culeou) on soil chemical properties in Andean Patagonian forests of Argentina4
The distributed strategy for asynchronous observations in data-driven wildland fire spread prediction4
Visibility-informed mapping of potential firefighter lookout locations using maximum entropy modelling4
Prescribed burning on private land: reflections on recent law reform in Australia and California4
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Vegetation-derived pyrogenic carbon degradation and stabilisation in UK peatlands†4
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, Canada4
Unpacking the pluralism paradox: collaborative governance outcomes in jurisdictionally complex environments4
Predicting burn severity for integration with post-fire debris-flow hazard assessment: a case study from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA4
Physics-based modelling for mapping firebrand flux and heat load on structures in the wildland–urban interface4
A flammability phenology for dry mixed heaths and its implications for modelling fire behaviour4
Special issue editorial team4
Post-wildfire contamination of soils and sediments by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in north-central British Columbia, Canada4
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Firebrand transport from a novel firebrand generator: numerical simulation of laboratory experiments4
A high-resolution large-eddy simulation framework for wildland fire predictions using TensorFlow4
Reburning pyrogenic organic matter: a laboratory method for dosing dynamic heat fluxes from above4
Climate forcing of regional fire years in the upper Great Lakes Region, USA4
Age and physical activity status of Australian volunteer firefighters: a cross-sectional study3
Comparing modeled soil temperature and moisture dynamics during prescribed fires, slash-pile burns and wildfires3
Pyros: a raster–vector spatial simulation model for predicting wildland surface fire spread and growth3
The impacts of fire use in the Brazilian Amazon: a bibliometric analysis3
Uncharted territory: governance opportunities for wildfire management and the case of Cyprus3
Rivers up in smoke: impacts of Australia’s 2019–2020 megafires on riparian systems3
A bottom–up savanna fire fuel consumption inventory and its application to savanna burning in Kafue National Park, Zambia3
Linking fire radiative power to land cover, fire history, and environmental setting in Alaska, 2003–20223
Fire whirls induced by a line fire on a windward slope: a laboratory-scale study3
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Seasonal litter decomposition and accumulation in north Australian savanna3
Observations of wildfire spread dynamics in southern Australian grasslands3
Comparing geostationary and polar-orbiting satellite sensor estimates of Fire Radiative Power (FRP) during the Black Summer Fires (2019–2020) in south-eastern Australia3
The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service3
Experimental investigation of fire behaviours and heat transfer in single cypress tree crown fires3
The correlation between wind and convective heat transfer in a propagating fire3
Examining the influence of mid-tropospheric conditions and surface wind changes on extremely large fires and fire growth days3
Dynamics of standing dead wood and severe fire in north Australian savannas: implications for carbon management3
Burning poop: chemical composition and carbon dynamics of large herbivore dung burned in African savanna fires3
Remote sensing applications for prescribed burn research3
Neighbourhood bushfire hazard, community risk perception and preparedness in peri-urban Hobart, Australia3
IX International Conference on Forest Fire Research and 17th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit: introduction to special issue (Part 3)3
Numerical simulation of two parallel merging wildfires3
Corrigendum to: Extending methods for assessing fuel hazard in temperate Australia to enhance data quality and consistency3
Estimating dead fine fuel moisture content of forest surface, based on wireless sensor network and back-propagation neural network3
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)3
Influence of combined hydric and thermal stresses on Rosmarinus officinalis and Cistus albidus3
Experimental study of the burning characteristics of dead forest fuels3
Ingesting GOES-16 fire radiative power retrievals into Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke)3
Predicting black spruce fuel characteristics with Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS)3
Evaluation and comparison of simple empirical models for dead fuel moisture content3
Forest fire progress monitoring using dual-polarisation Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images combined with multi-scale segmentation and unsupervised classification3
Experimental study on the evolution of canyon fire spread behavior under different terrains and the critical conditions for eruptive fire3
Book Review3
Accounting for among-sampler variability improves confidence in fuel moisture content field measurements3
Evaluation of new methods for drought estimation in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System3
Comparing particulate morphology generated from human-made cellulosic fuels to natural vegetative fuels3
Effect of initial generating eddy height on formation and flame geometry of fire whirl3
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A novel fire regime driven by increased lightning activity and lightning ignition efficiency for northwestern Patagonia, Argentina3
Anthropogenic fire practices only ‘best’ if they promote a large seed buildup: comment on the conservation needs of a fire-killed grevillea3
Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions3
Burnover events identified during the 2018 Camp Fire3
An empirical-based model for predicting the forward spread rate of wildfires in eucalypt forests3
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