ArticleScience advances2024
Global expansion of wildland-urban interface intensifies human exposure to wildfire risk in the 21st century.
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- Blazing a Trail for Fire Management and Smoke Health Collaboration: Takeaways From the 2024 Rocky Mountain Wildfire Smoke Symposium.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Chemical complexity and enrichment in wildland-urban interface fire emissions: A case study of particulate matter, gas-phase pollutants, and ash from the 2025 Los Angeles fires.Journal of hazardous materials · 2026Article
- Urban Conflagrations: Structural Ash and Soil Metal(loid) Contamination after California's Eaton and Palisades Fires.Environmental science & technology letters · 2026Article
- Assessing the influence of building data choice on wildland-urban interface delineation in mainland Portugal.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Assessing decadal changes in human exposure near wildfires in a Mediterranean region.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gazing into the flames: A guide to assessing the impacts of climate change on landscape fire.Science advances · 2025Review
- Ensuring respiratory protection to improve population health, economic vitality, and national security.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2025Review
- Semi-automated multi-criteria filtering of building footprints for enhanced Wildland-Urban Interface mapping in mainland Portugal.Data in brief · 2025Article
- Managing Smoke Risk from Wildland Fires: Northern California as a Case Study.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Benchmarking performance of annual burn probability modeling against subsequent wildfire activity in California.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Rapidly increasing human-nature interactions exacerbate the risk of exposure to wildfires for human society. The wildland-urban interface (WUI) represents the nexus of human-nature interactions, where the risk of exposure to natural hazards such as wildfire is most pronounced. However, quantifying long-term global WUI change and the corresponding driving factors at fine resolution remain challenging. Here, we mapped and analyzed the global WUI at 30-meter resolution in 2000, 2010, and 2020. Our analysis revealed that the global WUI expanded by 35.6% since 2000, reaching 1.93 million square kilometer in 2020. Notably, 85% of this growth occurred between 2010 and 2020. The increase in WUI was primarily driven by the unprecedented expansion of global urbanization, contributing an additional 589,914 square kilometer of WUI. In addition, the number of small fires occurring in WUI areas has increased substantially since 2010. These findings underscore the rising wildfire risk to human society and highlight the urgency of implementing tailored fire management strategies in WUI areas.
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