Workshop identifies research priorities to mitigate fires in the wildland-urban interface

Over 46 million residential structures in the United States are in areas at risk of wildfires. A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) identifies a set of research needs aimed at preventing or managing this growing threat to about 70,000 communities located in the so-called wildland-urban interface (WUI).

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