Fire, Volume 8, Issue 8

Landsat time series data, which have become freely available in recent years, are commonly used to detect changes in land cover and monitor ecosystem disturbances. Thyme habitats are areas under protection due to their high ecological value. However,...

The imperative for high-performance protective materials has catalyzed the rapid evolution of polyurea (PUA) coatings, widely recognized for their mechanical robustness, chemical resistance, and rapid-curing properties. However, their inherent flamma...

Forests play a vital role in the global carbon cycle; however, the carbon sink capacity of African forests is increasingly threatened by wildfires, rising temperatures, and ecological degradation. This study analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of fo...

To enhance the understanding and management of fire risks in subway stations, this study aims to identify critical fire risk transmission paths using an integrated PSR–DEMATEL–ISM approach. A comprehensive evaluation framework is first co...

Fire smoke significantly affects human health and air quality. The HYSPLIT dispersion model estimates the area impacted by smoke downwind, but the results are sensitive to input data. This study investigates the impact of different fire emission inpu...

Wildfires are increasing in frequency and severity, with Australia’s 2019–2020 Black Summer burning over 18 million hectares. Accurate prediction of wildfire behavior is essential for effective risk assessment and emergency response. This...

To study the impact of the psychological and behavioral characteristics of people, fire environment, and evacuation routes on fire evacuation efficiency, this study focuses on a university library as the research subject. A fuzzy logic algorithm is e...

Mixing hydrogen into natural gas pipelines for transportation is an effective solution to the imbalance between the supply and demand of hydrogen energy. Studying the influence of bent pipes in hydrogen-mixed natural gas explosion accidents can enhan...

This study proposes an equivalent furniture fire model based on standard combustible assembly and verifies its feasibility as a substitute for real furniture through full-scale experiments and numerical simulations. Experiments show that the peak hea...

In this paper, the effect of nozzle height on the combustion dynamics of jet fires in rotating flow fields (JFRFFs) is systematically investigated through experimental and numerical simulations. As the nozzle height increases, the JFRFF flame state t...

In recent years, devastating wildfires have occurred in less fire-prone areas, and an increase in boreal region wildfires is expected in the future. Using a qualitative comparative approach based on a literature review and policy document analysis, t...

Wildfires are becoming more frequent and widespread, posing a threat to European ecosystems. Recent findings quantified a large fraction of Europe’s burnt areas within Natura 2000 protected area sites. This study analyzed total wildfire events...

Human activities are increasing the occurrence of megafires that alter ecological dynamics in forest ecosystems. The objective of this study was to understand the impacts of a 610 km² megafire on patterns of tree regeneration and herbivory across thr...

In 2020, a high-intensity wildfire burned over 35,000 ha in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, including over 1700 ha of old-growth coast redwood forest. This event created a unique opportunity to evaluate post-fire succession. We compared veget...

The Northern Rocky Mountains, USA contain a vast forested landscape, managed primarily by the federal government. This region contains some of the highest elevations forests and most iconic endangered and threatened species in the contiguous United S...

Fire occurs naturally and anthropogenically in the Cerrado biome, influenced by hydrology, climate, topography, and land use. Mapping burned areas is essential for understanding the causes of fire and improving prevention and regulation. However, fir...

Volunteer firefighters often have lower cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and less access to health monitoring and fitness programs than career firefighters, yet few studies explore how individual and departmental factors influence their CRF. This stud...

This article investigates the effects of pressure vacuum impregnation using inorganic, organic, and natural flame retardants on enhancing the fire resistance and chemical composition of structural beech wood (Fagus sylvatica). The study examines fire...

This study investigates the thermal control effect of a water mist fire-extinguishing system in road tunnels under both single-source and double-source fire scenarios. A total of eight full-scale fire tests were executed in a physical tunnel, and the...

The use of remote sensing technologies for mapping forest fires has experienced significant growth in recent decades, driven by advancements in remote sensors, processing platforms, and artificial intelligence algorithms. This study presents a review...

Point-type smoke fire detectors have become one of the most commonly used technical means in the fire detection systems of ancient buildings. However, in practical applications, their performance is easily affected by special environmental interferen...

Ventilation in subway and railway tunnels is a critical safety component, especially during fire emergencies, where effective smoke and heat management is essential for successful evacuation and firefighting efforts. The Subway Environmental Simulati...

The increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires pose serious threats to ecosystems, property, and human safety worldwide. Accurate semantic segmentation of wildfire images is essential for real-time fire monitoring, spread prediction, and disaste...

Forest fires are recurrent in Spain and affect tree species in different ways. Fire incidence in the main Spanish forest species, both native and alien, is estimated in this study based on actual fire occurrences. Indices of presence, burned area, fi...

This article focuses on the fire safety risks associated with conventional glass–aluminum façades—with a particular focus on stick and unitized curtain walling systems—providing an overview of possible fire spread mechanisms,...

The main aim of this work is to compare double- or single-designed connections with wooden members and internal steel fasteners under fire conditions. Theoretical methods following Eurocodes will be used to assess the load-bearing capacity of the con...

The Mapleton Falls National Park transmission line corridor in Queensland, Australia, has received a number of vegetation management treatments over the last decade to maintain and protect the infrastructure and to ensure continuous electricity suppl...

Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and destructive environmental hazards, especially in boreal ecosystems facing prolonged droughts and temperature extremes. This study presents an integrated spatio-temporal framework that combines Spatio-Te...

Implementing nature-based solutions (NbSs) for wildfire risk management and other hazards has been challenging in emerging economies due to the high costs, the lack of immediate returns on investment, and stringent inclusion criteria set by organizat...

The continuous advancement of fire protection technologies has necessitated the development of comprehensive safety standards, leading to an increasingly diversified and specialized regulatory landscape. This has made it difficult for fire protection...

Forest fires are commonly regarded as negative for ecosystems; however, they also represent a major ecological force shaping the biodiversity of invertebrates and many other organisms. The aim of this study was to better understand how multiple group...

This study assessed the effectiveness of stress-based cognitive-behavioral training compared to standard training in firefighters, emphasizing their ability to distribute extinguishing water and cool environments evenly during enclosure fires. Experi...

In 1961, Los Angeles experienced the disastrous Bel Air fire, which swept through an affluent neighborhood situated in a hilly, WUI (wildland–urban interface) location. In January 2025, the city was devastated again by a nearly-simultaneous ser...

The manuscript examines the cause-and-effect relationships of fires in the Republic of Serbia over a fifteen-year period, primarily from the aspect of human safety. For this purpose, numerical variables describing the number of injuries and deaths in...

The emergence of electric vehicles (EVs) has brought specific risks, including the possibility of fires or explosions resulting from mechanical, thermal, or electrical failures, which can lead to thermal runaway (TR). There is a great lack of knowled...

Early evacuation during bushfires remains the safest strategy; however, in many realistic scenarios, timely evacuation is challenging, making safe sheltering a last-resort option to reduce risk compared to late evacuation attempts. However, most Aust...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of wildfire episodes on air quality in terms of particulate matter (PM) and carbonaceous compound concentration in ambient air, and to assess deviations from typical annual patterns. The sampling was perform...

Taking a composite goaf in goaf-side entry retaining as our research focus, a kilogram-level spontaneous combustion experiment was carried out, and limit parameters for coal spontaneous combustion characteristics were assessed. Combined with the key...

Increasing wildfires are causing global concerns about ecosystem functioning and services. Although some wildfires are caused by natural ignitions, it is also important to understand how human ignitions and human-related factors can contribute to wil...

To enhance the fire safety protection level of deeply buried metro stations, this study conducted full-scale fire experiments based on Wulichong Station of Guiyang Metro Line 3. It systematically investigated the laws of smoke movement and temperatur...

Forest fire detection is an essential application in environmental surveillance since wildfires cause devastating damage to ecosystems, human life, and property every year. The effective and accurate detection of fire is necessary to allow for timely...

This study suggests a method for analyzing the risk of methane explosions using the N-K model and Social Network Analysis (SNA) to understand how different risk factors related to coal-mine methane explosions are connected and change over time, aimin...

Wildfires increasingly threaten human life, ecosystems, and infrastructure, with events like the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles County underscoring the urgent need for more advanced prediction frameworks. Existing physics-based and dee...

Concave surface is a common geometry in both industrial buildings and natural environments; the flame spread behaviors on this special surface are worth studying, while few studies have been completed yet. In this study, kraft paper, which is a typic...

This study aims to provide a reference for the fire protection design and fire emergency response strategies for fuel islands in high-speed railway stations and other transportation buildings. By using an industrial calorimeter, this paper analyzes t...

In recent years, the region of Valparaíso has faced devastating fires, notably the Viña del Mar fire on 2 February 2024, which affected 9252 hectares. This study analyzes fire behavior in informal settlements and assesses the effectiven...

This present study proposes different machine learning-based predictors for the assessment of the residual compressive strength of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) subjected to high temperatures. The investigation is based on several literature algorit...

The escalating impacts and occurrence of wildfires threaten the public, economies, and global ecosystems. Physiologically declining or dead trees are a great portion of the fires because these trees are prone to higher ignition and have lower moistur...

Accurate fire source location in an aircraft cargo compartment cannot be determined by common design practices. This study proposes an advanced fire location inversion framework based on a Convolutional Long-Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) network. A se...

Promoting domestic fire safety is crucial for preventing and effectively managing risky situations. This study evaluated the effectiveness of virtual environments (VEs) in fire drills to improve citizens’ knowledge and safe behavior in domestic...