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Engineering LaboratoryFire Research Division

# Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group

The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group develops, advances, and deploys measurement science to reduce risk of fire spread in wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities.

## Welcome

The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Group conducts research to reduce the risk of fire hazards in WUI communities. This research includes mission-related measurement science research and services to develop WUI fire risk exposure metrics, predict the spread of fires in WUI communities, assess the fire performance of structures and communities, and mitigate the effects of WUI fires on structures and communities through science-based codes and standards.

The WUI Fire Group accomplishes this work with the collaboration of various stakeholders, including:
                    - Federal agencies (e.g., FEMA, USFA, USFS)
                    - State agencies (e.g., CAL FIRE)
                    - Codes and standards organizations (e.g., NFPA, ICC, ISO)
                    - Fire research community (e.g., numerous academic institutions)

## Highlights

Credit:

**WUI FIRE DAYS**2023 content here2022 content here

*Credit: NIST*

**WUI Structure/Parcel/Community Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodology (HMM)**project webpage

Credit:

**ESCAPE: Evacuation and Sheltering Considerations - Assessment, Planning, and Execution**herehere

**Structure Separation Experiments**project webpage

**Camp Fire Case Study**project webpage

**Parcel-level Combustibles**here

**Firebrand Measurement**here

**Watch the video: ****With Its Dragon, NIST Aims to Reduce the Toll of Wildfires**

Staff Directory

## News and Updates

### NIST Issues New Guidance for Emergency Response During Wildfires

August 23, 2023

### For Sheds in Wildfire Zones, NIST Researchers Determine How Close Is Too Close to Home

June 1, 2023

### NIST Study Finds Wildfire Hazards in Residential Fences and Mulch Beds

August 11, 2022

### NIST Offers First-of-a-Kind Guidance for Holistic Home and Community Wildfire Protection

March 1, 2022

View All News and Updates

## Projects and Programs

### Ember Exposure Characterization in WUI Fires

### Fire Risk Reduction in Communities Program

### Improving WUI Community Fire Protection- Fire Resistant Building Design and Materials

### Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires

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## Publications

### A framework to characterize WUI firebrand shower exposure using an integrated approach combining 3D particle tracking and machine learning

October 25, 2023

Nicolas  BouvetSavannah  WessiesEric  LinkStephen  Fink

### WUI Fire Evacuation and Sheltering Considerations: Assessment, Planning, and Execution (ESCAPE)

August 21, 2023

Alexander  MaranghidesEric  Link

### A Case Study of the Camp Fire - Notification, Evacuation, Traffic, and Temporary Refuge Areas (NETTRA)

July 18, 2023

Alexander  MaranghidesEric  LinkChristopher U.  BrownWilliam D.  Walton

### Convective Heat Transfer Correlation for a Single Surrogate Firebrand and a Simplified Firebrand Pile on a Flat Plate Using Naphthalene Sublimation in Heated Air Flow

July 7, 2023

Savannah  WessiesJiann C.  Yang

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## Awards

### 2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Kathryn Butler, Susanne Furman

### 2017 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Samuel L. Manzello

### 2016 - Silver Medal Award---Kevin McGrattan, Randall McDermott, Glenn Forney, Craig Weinschenk, Richard Peacock, Anthony Hamins, Blaza Toman

### 2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Alexander Maranghides

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