Forest crew fighting a fire ... The amount of land in which housing and fire-prone vegetation exist in close proximity—termed the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) -- has increased exponentially ...
As Canada both warms and its cities continue to build in the wildland urban interface, this scenario is likely to recur in particularly dangerous ways. The fire chiefs warn in their report that ...
More information: Yongxuan Guo et al, Global expansion of wildland-urban interface intensifies human exposure to wildfire ...