Research Journals
As compared to wildfire, there are significantly fewer research studies that focus on prescribed burning. This gap in the research and the need to address it was highlighted by fire scientists from across the country in a recent Forum article in Fire Ecology and Southern Fire exchange webinar. While much more research on prescribed burning is needed, many studies are available on a variety of topics including fire ecology, fire behavior, air quality impacts of prescribed fire, and public perceptions of prescribed fire. The following journals will be helpful in finding specific research articles about both prescribed fire and wildfire.
Wildland fire is an interdisciplinary field, and research on wildfire and prescribed fire is often published in other journals. This collection includes journals that often publish wildland fire research, but may not be specifically focused on wildland fire.
International Journal of Wildland Fire
International Journal of Wildland Fire publishes new and significant articles that advance basic and applied research concerning wildland fire.
Fire Ecology
Fire Ecology is the international scientific journal supported by the Association for Fire Ecology. It publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire.
Fire Research Institute
The Fire Research Institute (FRI) is a not-for-profit library holding around 156249 books, journal articles, videos, training manuals, dissertations, news reports, and other material on wildland fire.
U.S. Fire Administration
As an entity of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the mission of the U.S. Fire Administration is to support and strengthen fire and emergency medical services (EMS) and stakeholders to prepare for, prevent, mitigate and respond to all hazards.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Publications include standards, guides, job aids, position taskbooks, training curricula, and other documents.
California Fire Science Consortium
The California Fire Science Consortium (as part of the Joint Fire Science Program's Fire Science Exchange network) is a network of scientists and managers that strives to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by federal, tribal, state, local, and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions.
USGS Wildland Fire Science
USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events.
Joint Fire Science Program Publications
The JFSP provides funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to national levels.
Wildfire Research Center
The mission of the WiRē Center is to support evidence-based community wildfire education efforts so that communities can live with wildfire. Specifically, the WiRē Center provides personalized expertise and support to collect, interpret, and use paired parcel-level wildfire risk and social data. The WiRē Approach enables partners to effectively allocate resources and engage with residents.
Journal of Forestry
The mission of JOF is to advance the profession of forestry by keeping forest management professionals informed about significant developments and ideas in the many facets of forestry.
Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing is a peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science and application of remote sensing technology.
Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) is an online journal that optimizes the communication of concepts, information, and progress within the remote sensing community to improve the societal benefit for monitoring and management of natural disasters, weather forecasting, agricultural and urban land-use planning, environmental quality monitoring, ecological restoration, and numerous other commercial and scientific applications.
Atmosphere
Atmosphere is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of scientific studies related to the atmosphere published monthly online.
Frontiers
Wildland fires represent a challenging interdisciplinary problem and these topics and approaches to solving them are not exclusive. By focusing on a wide variety of approaches to study and mitigate the harmful effects of wildland fires, we hope to present a review of the state-of-the-art in the field through this open-access collection.
Environmental Sciences Proceedings
Environmental Sciences Proceedings is an open access journal dedicated to publishing findings resulting from conferences, workshops, and similar events, in all areas of environmental sciences.
NOAA
NOAA is a leader in science and technology used by the wildland fire community, and is dedicated to understanding and predicting weather and climate to protect life and property.
