Category
page 1Wildfire prevention
firebreak
thumb|Red fire retardant dispersed aerially onto brush adjoining a firebreak during the [[Tumbleweed Fire in California, in July 2021; while vegetation to the left of the firebreak has completely burned, everything to its right was protected]]
thumb|A firebreak on the Setúbal Peninsula in Portugal
A firebreak or double track (also called a fire line, fuel break, fireroad and firetrail in Australia) is a nonflammable gap in vegetation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a bushfire or wildfire. A firebreak may occur naturally where there is an abs
controlled burn
a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest or land management, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement
fire ecology
scientific discipline concerned with natural processes involving fire in an ecosystem and the ecological effects

Fire Information for Resource Management System
conflagration mapping platform developed by NASA
National Interagency Fire Center
federal government building