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Overview of fire management in the Wildland-Urban Interface of the United States and its enlightenment to China.

ZHENG Wen-xia1,2, GUO Xin-bin1,2, GUO Lin-fei1,2, MA Yuan-fan1,2, GUO Fu-tao1,2*   

  1. (1College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China; 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Soil and Water Conservation in Red Soil Region of the CrossStrait, Fuzhou, 350002, China).
  • Online:2020-01-10 Published:2020-01-10

Abstract: With the growth of global population, the expansions of Wildland-Urban Interfaces (WUIs) are accelerating worldwide. In the United States, WUIs are widely distributed with large population. They are highly vulnerable to wildfire due to its direct connection with the forests. The human life and property in the WUIs is facing a great threat. With a long history of management practice, the United States has formed a relatively complete management system on wildfire prevention and suppression in WUIs. We summarized the management system of wildfire in WUIs of the United States from the aspects of formation of WUIs, wildfire situation, and the measures of wildfire prevention and suppression. In addition, current situation and problems of wildfire management in WUIs of China were analyzed. Based on the experience from the United States, we proposed suggestions for improving the fire management of WUIs in China: (1) developing fire management plan for the WUIs; (2) rationally utilizing the prescribed burning; (3) developing early fire warning system; (4) improving the capability of wildfire prevention in WUI community; (5) improving the fire fighting level of firefighters; (6) promoting fire fighting strategy in WUIs.

Key words: ozone dry deposition flux, bare soil, soil resistance., eddy covariance