Rapid Growth of the US Wildland-Urban Interface Raises Wildfire Risk
March 2018
By: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718850115
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This article discusses how growth over the last 30 years has been predominantly in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) which increased wildfire risk as well as risk to lives and homes. In the article, the authors talk about how one in three houses are now in the WUI and will only further increase the problems faced in these areas currently.