Summary of Workshop Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment.

Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world, and are an emerging problem in fire safety science. Other examples are large urban fires including those that have occurred after earthquakes. Research into large outdoor fires, and how to potentially mitigate the loss of structures in such fires, lags other areas of fire safety science research. At the same time, common characteristics between fire spread in WUI fires and urban fires have not been fully exploited. In this paper, an overview of the large outdoor fire risk to the built environment from each region is presented. Critical research needs for this problem in the context offire safety science are provided. The present paper seeks to develop the foundation for an international research needs roadmap to reduce the risk of large outdoor fires to the built environment.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Fire safety journal

• Publication date

  2017-07-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.firesaf.2018.07.002PMID 30983689PMCID PMC6459202
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