Webinar: Fire Weather on Pacific Islands

Derek Wroe, Lead Forecaster for the National Weather Service Honolulu Office, presents on the climate- and weather-driven factors of wildfire in Hawaii (54 MINS) WATCH THE WEBINAR

Fuels & Wildfire Behavior – A Training Module

This PFX Training Module is a self-paced mini-course that will help you understand how fuel type, characteristics, arrangement, and environment affects fire risk and fire behavior. You will also learn to identify hazardous fuels types and arrangements on a landscape.

Fuels & Wildfire Behavior – A Training Module

This PFX Training Module is a self-paced mini-course that will help you understand how fuel type, characteristics, arrangement, and environment affects fire risk and fire behavior. You will also learn to identify hazardous fuels types and arrangements on a landscape.

Hawai‘i’s Big Burn: The 1901 Hamakua Fire

Fire shaped the history of forest management in Hawaii in much the same way it did in the continental US.

Grazing to Reduce Blazing

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Pre-Fire Planning Guide for Hawaii and Pacific Islands

Local knowledge of resources like water, road access, and high priority landscape features (crops, endangered species) is critical to minimizing the impacts caused directly by the wildfire as well as the impacts…

El Niño and Fire Weather on Pacific Islands

Predictions for El Nino’s effects on climate and wildfire in the Pacific (2015). DOWNLOAD PDF

Field Notes – Reconstructing Fire History in Hawai’i – Makapu’u

Makapu‘u is the easternmost part of the island of Oahu. Its an iconic area, famous for its beaches and the trail out to the lighthouse.

Wildfire in Hawaii

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Wildfire in Hawai‘i

A summary of wildfire in Hawai‘i (2014) including statewide ignitions, wildfire occurrence in the past century and management implications.

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