This story was originally published by The Water Desk. Western wildfires start and spread because of a whole host of factors—wind, temperature, drought, forest health. But scientists are finding that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – With wildfires growing more destructive both in the United States and around the world, University at Buffalo researchers have conducted one of the most extensive evaluations to date ...

This is a wildfire, driven by strong winds, raging through a city in South Korea last month. Researchers at the European weather forecaster ECWMF have developed a new AI algorithm that is better at ...

The Aspen Fire Protection District plans to use an advanced computer model to see how wildfires would burn through the area. The model will use data collected on individual homes and buildings ...

Overstory recently announced the industry's first AI models that predict where outages and utility-caused wildfires are most likely to start. The new Ignition and Outage Models mark a shift from paper ...

New moisture-monitoring technology is being deployed in Arizona to help predict flooding and prevent destructive wildfires. Salt River Project crews are burying soil sensors in the Tonto National ...

A fire model that has been able to predict wildfire movement across vegetation and the built-environment, meaning downtown and residential areas, with close to 90% accuracy will be assessing the Aspen ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Scientists at Utah State University have identified a simple metric that could be used to measure and predict wildfire vulnerability. The study examined all wildfires in Utah ...

As California's population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living in fire-prone areas multiplied. Over the decades, millions of new homes and commercial ...