UL Research Institutes and its Fire Safety Research Institute today announced a new firefighter training course to address the threats found in the wildland urban interface, also known as WUI, or the ...

A research team led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has published a foundational inventory of emissions produced by structures destroyed by ...

Saratoga City Council approved a new map that extends the boundary of the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to encapsulate Cal Fire’s changes to the city’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone map. Related ...

Professor Janet Yang has been named co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, “FIRE-WUI: RECAP: A Robust, Efficient, and Community-Guided Framework for Smoke-Aware Prescribed Fire Planning ...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past few decades. More fires are burning at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where homes and other buildings meet the natural ...

The exterior wall assembly can be used for new buildings in WUI areas or any Fire Hazard Severity Zone within State Responsibility Areas.