New research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from ...

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI ... and the 2023 Lahaina Fire in Hawaii that killed 100. At the beginning of this year, a disastrous outbreak of fires ...

“Today marks a milestone that represents the hard work of many to update and modernize Wildland-Urban Interface building codes,” said California State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant. “While ...

In the 1990s, about 917,000 homes in the Bay Area were in wildland-urban Interface areas, or WUI. Those areas are on land that is on the edge or within the wilderness, putting it at high fire risk.