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Defining extreme wildfire events: Difficulties, challenges, and impacts

Year of Publication
2018
Publication Type

Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social impacts, but there is no agreement upon terminology to describe them.