Wildland urban interface

Increased urban development in wildland areas combined with changes in wildfire behavior in a changing climate intensifies the need to better understand the wildland urban interface fire problem. We are building our knowledge in this field with data and risk assessment tools to help communities and responders be better prepared.

To learn about older reports, you can:

• search and download from the NFPA Library & Archives catalog;
• contact the library at +1 617 984-7445.

You can also browse NFPA workshop and symposium proceedings on this topic.

Latest report

WUI-NITY 2: The Integration, Verification, and Validation of the Wildfire Evacuation Platform WUI-NITY

The work in WUI-NITY 2 aimed at making the WUI-NITY tool credible (through rigorous testing), possible (by working with stakeholders to ensure the model is accessible and configurable), and valuable (by enhancing the model output to provide insights not generated elsewhere, i.e. trigger buffer designs and vulnerability assessments).

Download the report.

• WUI-NITY 2: The Integration, Verification, and Validation of the Wildfire Evacuation Platform WUI-NITY

• WUI-NITY: a platform for the simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation (2020)
• Fire ember production from wildland and structural fuels (2019)
• Brush, Grass and Forest Fires (2018)
• Wildland/Urban Interface: Fire Department Wildfire Preparedness and readiness Capabilities (2017)
• e-Sanctuary: Open Multi-Physics Framework for Modelling Wildfire Urban Evacuation (2017)
• Pathways for Building Fire Spread at the Wildland Urban Interface (2015)
• A Collection of Geospatial Technological Approaches for Wildland and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Events (2014)