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

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;...

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Published in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 115; no. 13; p. 3314
Main Authors:	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
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 27.03.2018
Subjects:	Conservation of Natural Resources Ecosystem Housing Humans Risk Factors United States Urbanization Wildfires - statistics & numerical data development wildfires sprawl housing growth fragmentation
ISSN:	1091-6490, 1091-6490
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