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Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2018-03, Vol.115 (13), p.3314-3319 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Volumes 1–89 and 106–114, copyright as a collective work only; author(s) retains copyright to individual articles ;Copyright National Academy of Sciences Mar 27, 2018 ;2018 ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718850115 ;PMID: 29531054

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Title:
Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk
Author: Radeloff, Volker C. ; Helmers, David P. ; Kramer, H. Anu ; Mockrin, Miranda H. ; Alexandre, Patricia M. ; Bar-Massada, Avi ; Butsic, Van ; Hawbaker, Todd J. ; Martinuzzi, Sebastián ; Syphard, Alexandra D. ; Stewart, Susan I.
Subjects: Biological Sciences ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecosystem ; Forest & brush fires ; Houses ; Housing ; Humans ; Land development ; Land use ; Residential areas ; Risk Factors ; Social Sciences ; United States ; Urbanism ; Urbanization ; Vegetation ; Wildfires ; Wildfires - statistics & numerical data ; Wildland-urban interface
Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2018-03, Vol.115 (13), p.3314-3319
Description: The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, and where wildfire problems are most pronounced. Here we report that the WUI in the United States grew rapidly from 1990 to 2010 in terms of both number of new houses (from 30.8 to 43.4 million; 41% growth) and land area (from 581,000 to 770,000 km²; 33% growth), making it the fastest-growing land use type in the conterminous United States. The vast majority of new WUI areas were the result of new housing (97%), not related to an increase in wildland vegetation. Within the perimeter of recent wildfires (1990–2015), there were 286,000 houses in 2010, compared with 177,000 in 1990. Furthermore, WUI growth often results in more wildfire ignitions, putting more lives and houses at risk. Wildfire problems will not abate if recent housing growth trends continue.
Publisher: United States: National Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
EISSN: 1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718850115
PMID: 29531054
Source: Open Access: PubMed Central
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Rapid growth of the US wildland-urban interface raises wildfire risk

Volumes 1–89 and 106–114, copyright as a collective work only; author(s) retains copyright to individual articles ;Copyright National Academy of Sciences Mar 27, 2018 ;2018 ;ISSN: 0027-8424 ;EISSN: 1091-6490 ;DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718850115 ;PMID: 29531054

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