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.

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Report

WUI-NITY: a platform for the simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation

This report introduces a modelling platform, called WUINITY, for the simulation of human and fire behaviour during a wildfire evacuation at the wildlandurban interface (WUI). The scope of this platform is to enhance the situational awareness of responders and residents in evacuation scenarios providing information on the dynamic evolution of the situation.

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• 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)