NFPA Journal looks at new research that could unlock mysteries behind how wildfire spreads

Jack Cohen in the USDA Forest Service's Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. In the “Perspectives” feature in the new November/December NFPA Journal, prominent fire scientist Jack Cohen talks about the discoveries that he and a team of researchers at the USDA Forest Service’s Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Montana have made about wildfire spread. Their breakthroughs, published in July in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have called into question some long-held beliefs about wildfire dynamics and suggest that most models for how wildfire spreads are based on a false narrative. In the Journal article, called...