Summary
Fires are growing faster across the West—with a 250% increase in just the past two decades. While fast fires only represent 3% of all wildfires, they are the most destructive and deadly because they challenge suppression efforts and compromise evacuation routes. Fire science and policy need to expand the focus from 'megafires' to also address 'fast fires.' To tackle this urgent threat, this effort will build a Fast Fire Network to develop a new framework for ‘fast fire risk’, leveraging expertise across disciplines in the natural, social, data, and computer sciences, hazards and risk analysis,
