Wildfire Hazards in a Changing Climate: Risks, Impacts, and Adaptation

Dear Colleagues,

Global warming is changing wildfire regimes and their interactions with geomorphological, climatological, and socio-economic hazards, with cascading effects across systems. This Special Issue intends to combine research exploring the changing nature of wildfire interactions with the risks and impacts of geomorphic processes to natural and human systems, as well as adaptation strategies and tactics used to confront these evolving threats. We invite research that broadly addresses these issues, including, but not limited to, post-fire vegetation removal leading to soil loss, destabilized slopes and landslides, debris and mudflows, rockslides, permafrost thawing and sinkhole creation, altered infiltration rates that increase flash flooding, and extreme drought–wildfire–rainfall sequences that leave watersheds highly erodible. We also encourage submissions investigating broader climate feedback, including the release of GHGs (from soils and biomass), which contribute to global warming and in turn increase future wildfire–geomorphic hazard risks.

The societal consequences of these hazards are significant. They include challenges faced by communities in downslope and downstream areas and those within the wildland–urban interface, where health, lives, infrastructure, private property, and businesses are at risk, and planning and management actions are being taken to adapt to the changing conditions. We welcome systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and primary studies that employ field observations, geospatial and climate datasets, and remote sensing products, as well as applications of statistical and geospatial analyses and modelling in various forms. By drawing contributions from diverse fields, this Special Issue aims to advance our understanding of wildfire hazards in a changing climate and to inform strategies for resilience, policy, and management.

Dr. Rabindra Parajuli
Dr. Scott H. Markwith
Dr. Asha Paudel
Guest Editors

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• wildfire hazards
• climate change and wildfire risk
• geomorphic impacts of wildfires
• fire-induced slope destabilization
• watershed and flooding impacts of wildfire
• wildland-urban interface and community vulnerability
• socio-economic consequences of wildfires
• climate feedback of wildfire (GHGs release, permafrost thaw)
• extreme weather interactions with wildfire
• climate adaptation and risk mitigation