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Wildfire

A wildfire, forest fire, brushfire or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Some natural forest ecosystems depend on wildfire. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate fire risk and promote natural forest cycles. Controlled burns can turn into wildfires if they escape…

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Physical properties

Climate change effects

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Wildfire

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Triples655
Avg. degree1.99
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Wildfire

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related to Sources · 235
Wildfire → Active Fire Detection, Advantage, Aerial Firefighting, Agriculture, Aki, Alexander, Alvarado, An Ecological History, Annales Botanici Fennici, April, Archived, Are Big Fires Inevitable, Asia, Aspects, Assessments, Attribution, August, Australia, Australian Governments, Automatic
related to Human involvement · 45
Wildfire → Aboriginal Australians, AD, Americas, An, As, Asia, BC, Bible, Black Forest, California, Central America, Charcoal, David Douglas, Dendrochronological, Finland, From, Greek, Hebrew, HMS Beagle, Homer
related to Satellite and aerial monitoring · 31
Wildfire → Advanced Very High Resolution, Agriculture, Atmospheric Administration's Hazard Mapping, AVHRR, Cloud, Department, Envisat's Advanced Along Track, European Remote-Sensing Satellite's Along-Track, Forest Service, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Global Forest Watch, GOES, GPS, However, In, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, NPP, Radiometer, Satellite
related to history · 30
Wildfire → Additional, As, C4-type, Carboniferous, Devonian, Early Devonian, Eucalyptus, However, In Jurassic, Late Devonian, Late Permian, Later, Lepidodendron, Low, Mesozoic, Middle, Paleozoic, Permian, Pinus, Poland
related to Post-fire risks · 20
Wildfire → After, Another, British Columbia, California, Camp Fire, Canadian, Chemically, Climate Change, Colorado, Evidence-based, Hawaii, Households, Humans, In, In Paradise, IPCC, Oregon, Residents, The Intergovernmental Panel, This
related to Detection · 18
Wildfire → Aerial, An, During, Early, Electronic, Fast, Fire, GIS, Global Positioning System, GPS, However, Incident Command Centers, Public, The, These, United States, West Yellowstone, Yellowstone
related to Spread · 15
Wildfire → Amazon, Crawling, Crown, Eastern Sumatra, Fuel, Ground, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Kudzu, Ladder, Old World, Overall, Stand-replacing, The, This
related to Suppression · 15
Wildfire → Above, Australian February, Canada, Complete, For, In, Intense, Mann Gulch, Montana, Silver, United States, US, Victorian, While, Wildfires
see also · 14
Wildfire → Australian, AustraliaPyrogeography, Byram Drought Index, Estimate, Estimation, Fire Danger Rating System, Forest, Forest Fire Danger Index, Index, List, Study, Transition, Weather-based, WeatherFirestormBushfires
related to On ecosystems · 13
Wildfire → Africa, Australia, Canada, Human, Mediterranean Basin, Some, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Such, This, United States, Western Cape, Wildfires

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available fuelsinstance ofWildfire severity results from a combination of factors0.80text
physical settinginstance ofWildfire severity results from a combination of factors0.80text
and weatherinstance ofWildfire severity results from a combination of factors0.80text
slash-and-burn farminginstance ofor the uncontrolled use of fire in land-clearing and agriculture0.80text
available sunlightinstance ofas land shape determines factors0.80text
water for plant growthinstance ofas land shape determines factors0.80text
leafinstance ofwhich resulted from a riceland creation project that unintentionally drained and dried the peat.Crawling or surface fires are fueled by low-lying vegetative matter on the forest…0.80text
timber litterinstance ofwhich resulted from a riceland creation project that unintentionally drained and dried the peat.Crawling or surface fires are fueled by low-lying vegetative matter on the forest…0.80text
debrisinstance ofwhich resulted from a riceland creation project that unintentionally drained and dried the peat.Crawling or surface fires are fueled by low-lying vegetative matter on the forest…0.80text
grassinstance ofwhich resulted from a riceland creation project that unintentionally drained and dried the peat.Crawling or surface fires are fueled by low-lying vegetative matter on the forest…0.80text
and low-lying shrubberyinstance ofwhich resulted from a riceland creation project that unintentionally drained and dried the peat.Crawling or surface fires are fueled by low-lying vegetative matter on the forest…0.80text
vegetation that is subjected to enough heatinstance ofan ignition source is brought into contact with a combustible material0.80text

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