Citation

Yoder MR, Turcotte DL, Rundle JB. Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 2011; 83(4-2): 046118.

Affiliation

Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Physical Society, Publisher American Institute of Physics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21599251

Abstract

Observations suggest that contemporary wildfire suppression practices in the United States have contributed to conditions that facilitate large, destructive fires. We introduce a forest-fire model with natural fire resistance that supports this theory. Fire resistance is defined with respect to the size and shape of clusters; the model yields power-law frequency-size distributions of model fires that are consistent with field observations in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Language: en