Stories of Fire: Resources for Media Covering Wildfire Events and Topics

This was developed through a partnership between Oregon State University’s Extension Fire Program and the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon. Our broad goal is to increase mutual learning between Oregon journalists and fire scientists to improve science-based coverage of wildfire events and issues. We conducted interviews with a selected number of journalists/newsrooms, fire scientists, and public information officers across the state to learn about their needs and interests in reporting on wildfire, and based the content of this publication on what we heard.

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LANDFIRE

These geospatial layers and other data products that depict the nation's major ecosystems, wildlife habitat, vegetation or canopy characteristics, landscape features, and wildland fire behavior, effects, and regimes.

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Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)

IFTDSS is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes previously existing and newly developed fire and fuels software applications to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. 

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FireModels.org

This website, maintained by the USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, provides downloads and explanations for most of the fire modeling programs available for land managers. Programs available include BehavePlus, FlamMap, FARSITE, FireFamilyPlus, Wildland Fire Assessment System, WindWizard, WindNinja, and FireStem.

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