HIGHFIRE RISK PROJECT

The HighFire Risk Project


Project team:
Prof. Jason Sharples, University of New South Wales, Canberra;
Adj, Prof. Rick McRae, University of New South Wales, Canberra (previously with the ACT Emergency Services Agency)

NEWS

Quantitative FFDR. This report presents tools for predicting aspects of dynamic fire behaviour. A synthesis of fire regimes of SE Australia. MODIS data allows detailed descriptions of how fire occurs across a wide spread of land-uses. URGENTLY REVISITING PAST BUSHFIRE LESSONS. After damaging fires, enquiries make recommendation far faster than the science is done. Many key past fires must now be reviewed for critical new lessons. IMPORTANT RESEARCH REPORTS. Reports presenting a range of new perspectives on Australian wildfires and the impact on them of climate change. See VLS in action: best ever view! 9 Sept 2024: a VLS event passes close by the high-resolution time-lapse cameras on HPWREN’s Santiago Peak site, just west of Santa Ana in Los Angeles, CA. REGISTER OF THE CAUSES OF DEEP FLAMING. There is an on-going effort to learn all of the causes of deep flaming, and thus of Blow-Up Fire Events.

KEY RESOURCES