Wildfire

Mark Billings surveys risks, attitudes, and adaptations of living outside bounds of fire protection.

Wildfire is a perennial challenge for Washington and the west. Learn about the risk of fire, and how to defend and restore balance in the landscape, with help from WSU and Extension foresters.   Lessons…

Extension Foresters host the Road to Recovery Post-Fire Information Webinar, Sept. 15.

Forest plants grow after a prescribed fire, which can reduce understory fuels and prevent more damaging wildfires. WSU experts and partners will lead an upcoming webinar on fire ecology. WSU Extension Foresters will help eastern…

Abnormally dry spring heralds an early start to fire season; WSU foresters explore the legacy of fire

Extension experts say it’s never too late to take steps to protect your home and forests.

WSU undergraduates will learn how to dig fire lines, understand fire behavior, and safely work around fire engines in the forest environment.

REPUBLIC, Wash. – In her two decades as a 4-H leader in Ferry County, Kari Neal has never seen a fire season like this. Even in 1988, with the White Mountain fire raging on nearby Sherman Pass, the Ferry County Fair went on as usual. “The kids had sooty ash falling on their animals, which […]

Fighting wildfires is expensive. Firefighters must be paid and equipment must be purchased and transported to fires. Operations and maintenance cost money.
According to a WSU researcher, the incentives to lower those costs are out of balance, and the researchers are working to understand the sources of the incentive problems.

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Firewise Communities Workshop is a free hands-on interactive educational event for anyone interested in how to reduce the risks to life and property to wildfire in the wildland/urban interface. That includes city and county officials, land planners, fire professionals, landowners and anyone involved in planning or protecting communities from fire.