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2017EraofMegafiresphoto.pngPublic perspectives are a critical consideration throughout the fire management process, including around management decisions before, during, and after fire events. Working with local property owners and communities around planning and implementing fuel treatments and about actions they can take to mitigate their fire risk, both prior to and during fire events, are critical to improving future fire management outcomes. Proactive work with communities also is critical to effective co-management and shared stewardship efforts as it enables agency managers and stakeholders to build trust and develop clear communication processes to discuss critical land management and community needs and preferences. Resources curated here provide background to better understand the social issues that managers encounter in fire management and provide potential ways to address those issues.

This hot topic was developed in partnership with Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Research Briefs

Technical Reports/White Papers

Publications

2024

Active Fire Clustering and Spatiotemporal Dynamic Models for Forest Fire Management
Hatef Dastour et al.
Socially vulnerable US Pacific Northwest communities are more likely to experience wildfires
Caitlyn Reilley et al.

2021

Understanding support for regulatory approaches to wildfire management and performance of property mitigations on private lands
Travis B. Paveglio et al.

2020

Exploring the 'issue-attention cycle': does length of time since wildfire predict social acceptability of prescribed burning?
Melinda R. Mylek et al.
Walking through a ‘phoenix landscape’: hiker surveys reveal nuanced perceptions of wildfire effects
Alexandra Weill et al.
Resistance and Representation in a Wildland–Urban Interface Fuels Treatment Conflict: The Case of the Forsythe II Project in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest
Hannah Brenkert-Smith et al.

2019

Local community agency and vulnerability influences on a Montana wildfire
Matthew S. Carroll et al.
Exploring the influence of local social context on strategies for achieving Fire Adapted Communities
Travis B. Paveglio et al.

2018

The role of communication in preparation for wildland fire: a literature review
Lauren Remenick
Understanding the factors that influence perceptions of post-wildfire landscape recovery across 25 wildfires in the northwestern United States
Chad Kooistra et al.

2017

Where you stand depends on where you sit: Qualitative inquiry into notions of fire adaptation
Hannah Brenkert-Smith et al.
Advancing characterization of social diversity in the wildland-urban interface: an indicator approach for wildfire management
Travis B. Paveglio et al.

2015

Local ecological knowledge and fire management: what does the public understand?
John M. Diaz et al.
'Put the wet stuff on the hot stuff': the legacy and drivers of conflict surrounding wildfire suppression
Travis B. Paveglio et al.
Effect of fire prevention programs on accidental and incendiary wildfires on tribal lands in the United States
Karen L. Abt et al.
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Jesse Abrams et al.

2014

Public acceptance of wildland fire and fuel management: panel responses in seven locations
Eric L. Toman et al.
Understanding evacuation preferences and wildfire mitigations among northwest Montana residents
Travis B. Paveglio et al.

2013

Social amplification of wildfire risk: the role of social interactions and information sources
Hannah Brenkert-Smith et al.
Creating “Community”? Preparing for Bushfire in Rural Victoria
Peter Fairbrother et al.

2012

Trying not to get burned: Understanding homeowners' wildfire risk-mitigation behaviors
Hannah Brenkert-Smith et al.
The role of trust in community wildland fire protection planning
Paul R. Lachapelle et al.
The importance of affect and perceived risk in understanding support for fuels management among wildland-urban interface residents
Timothy Ascher et al.
Place Mapping and the Role of Spatial Scale in Understanding Landowner Views of Fire and Fuels Management
Michael A. Cacciapaglia et al.

2011

Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?
Pamela J. Jakes et al.
Reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface: community perceptions of agency fuels treatments
Eric Toman et al.
Fire safe councils in the interface
Yvonne Everett et al.
Public perceptions of sagebrush ecosystem management in the Great Basin
Bruce A. Shindler et al.
Outreach programs, peer pressure, and common sense: what motivates homeowners to mitigate wildfire risk?
Sarah M. McCaffrey et al.
Complexity of homeowner wildfire risk mitigation: an integration of hazard theories
Bonita McFarlane et al.
What is limiting more flexible fire management-public or agency pressure?
Toddi A. Steelman et al.
Public engagement in neighbourhood level wildfire mitigation and preparedness: case studies from Canada, the US and Australia
Tara K. McGee
The art of learning: wildfire, amenity migration and local environmental knowledge
Christine Eriksen et al.
Reducing hazardous fuels on nonindustrial private forests: factors influencing landowner decisions
A. Paige Fischer

2010

Alternatives to evacuation during wildland fire: exploring adaptive capacity in one Idaho community
Travis B. Paveglio et al.

2007

The what, how, and when of social reliance and cooperative risk management
George T. Cvetkovich et al.
Northern Inland West land/homeowner perceptions of fire risk and responsibility in the wildland-urban interface
Brad R. Weisshaupt et al.

2006

Trust in wildland fire and fuel management decisions
Adam Liljeblad et al.

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