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Wildfire History Resources
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An elk standing in a burned area after the 1988 Yellowstone Fires
These resources are for resourcing historical wildfires in the U.S. in a more general sense, including statistics, terminology and scholarly work. They also introduce different points of entrance for studying historical fires and firefighting, such as through the lens of media coverage of fires, or historically underrepresented firefighters.
- A Classification of US Wildland Firefighter Entrapments Based on Coincident Fuels, Weather, and TopographyThis study draws on records of historical wildfires, including many of those discussed in the LibGuide such as the South Canyon Fire.
- Themes and patterns in print media coverage of wildfires in the USA, Canada and Australia: 1986–2016The authors of this article conclude that media coverage of wildfires is usually clustered into four topic areas: Fire Response, Management, Environmental Conditions, and Property Preparedness.
- Uncovering Our Lost Wildland Fire HistoryThere are many intersecting groups of historically underrepresented firefighters, including enslaved and/or juvenile firefighters.
- Wikipedia's Wildfires in the United StatesThis link serves as an access point for browsing US Wildfire articles on Wikipedia by decade or by year.
- Wildland Fire Statistics| NFPA ResearchThese charts show significant wildfires in the United States ranked by area burned, lives lost, and costliness.
- Inciweb Terminology GlossaryThis glossary of fire terms is maintained by the government 'InciWeb' or Incident Information System Program.
- FireRescue1 - 11 wildfires all firefighters should studyFireResuce1 links to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Library to demonstrate why and how firefighters should learn from historical wildfires.