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Combustion, marked by flames or intense heat, in natural settings, often ignited by lightning or human activities. For fires set as part of natural resource management, use 'controlled fires'.

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Mass Wasting Following the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire near Durango, Colorado, a Field Trip Guidebook [More info]: Guidebook with photos, maps, and diagrams explaining how forest fires have affected the likelihood of mass wasting, with discussions of steps taken to minimize future impacts.
Monitoring floods and fires during the summer of 2011--The value of the Landsat satellite 40-year archives [More info]: Examples showing the use of historical satellite imagery for assessing the extent and severity of landscape hazards such as fires and floods.
Post-fire burn assessment by remote sensing on Federal lands [More info]: Remote sensing and field sampling techniques to support national assessment of burned areas
United States Geological Survey fire science--Fire danger monitoring and forecasting [More info]: We use moderate resolution satellite data to assess live fuel condition for estimating fire danger. Using 23 years of vegetation condition measurements, we are able to determine the relative greenness of wildland vegetation susceptible to burning.
Vegetation recovery after fire in the Klamath-Siskiyou region, southern Oregon [More info]: Summarizes studies that took place in this ecoregion. Some studies occurred in areas without post-fire management, and others in moderately or intensively managed areas. Some of the research also occurred immediately after a wildfire, and other work occur
Wetland fire remote sensing research -- The Greater Everglades example [More info]: The U.S. Geological Survey uses remote sensing to improve fire-management databases in the Everglades, gain insights into post-fire land-cover dynamics, and develop spatial and temporal fire-scar data for habitat and hydrologic modeling.
Wildfire effects on source-water quality--Lessons from Fourmile Canyon fire, Colorado, and implications for drinking-water treatment [More info]: Stream discharge and nitrate concentration increased downstream of the burned area during snowmelt, but these were probably within the treatment capacity of most drinking-water plants, and limited changes were observed in downstream ecosystems.
Wildland fire managers site [More info]: Site with GIS maps of western wildfire areas with some access limited to wildland fire managers.
Wildland fire research [More info]: Thematic descriptions of research to meet the varied needs of the fire management community and to understand the role of fire in the landscape including fire management support, studies of postfire effects, and fire history and ecology.
Natural Hazards - A National Threat [More info]: Describes the role USGS plays in reducing losses from natural disasters, itemizing specific information we develop and maintain to help mitigate or avoid these problems.

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