Stories and insights from the field
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Selected work from across wildfire resilience, planning, and science.
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Data Story
7.9.2025
How Collaborative, Comprehensive Data is Transforming Wildfire Preparedness
A targeted $138.9 million in strategic treatments could avoid over $1 billion in structure losses. Applying learnings from Altadena, California, to seven communities showing similar warning signs.
$138.9M in strategic treatments could avoid $1B+ in structure losses — applying Altadena's lessons to seven communities at similar risk.
Articles
Perspective, synthesis, and field intelligence from our team.
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Data Stories
Data-driven stories from Vibrant Planet Data Commons, VP's nonprofit research partner — built on open wildfire and forest datasets freely available to researchers, policymakers, and the public.
Data Story
1.9.2026
Seeing How Communities Are Built—and Why It Matters for Wildfire
Beyond vegetation and terrain: how structure spacing and neighborhood density shape wildfire exposure once fire arrives. An introduction to VPDC's California Structure Graph — a statewide dataset covering 13.6 million structures, openly available for download.
Data Story
12.1.2024
Predicting the Cause of Wildfires
Where wildfires are most likely to start — and whether the cause is human or natural — fundamentally shapes prevention and planning strategy. An introduction to VPDC's ignition probability dataset from the Pyrologix modeling team, with the full interactive story at vpdatacommons.org.
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Case Studies
Real-world outcomes from communities and landscapes using the Vibrant Planet platform.
From the Science
Peer-reviewed research, technical reports, presentations, and other science outputs from VP and Pyrologix.
2026
A collaborative, cloud-based decision support system for structured wildfire risk mitigation planning
Ecological Modelling
2026
Advances in decision support platforms for prioritizing investments in forest and rangeland restoration, risk reduction and biodiversity conservation
Advances in Optimization and Wildfire (Springer, Lecture Notes in Operations Research)
2025
Continuous monitoring finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
2025
Opportunities for intentional fire use and opportunity costs of no action
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
2025
Fire severity deficits and surpluses across ecosystems of the United States
Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025
Recent press
How the media is covering wildfire resilience and our work.
Press Release
2.4.26
From Static Assessments to Actionable, Collaborative Mitigation Priorities: Peer-Reviewed Study Shows How the Vibrant Planet Platform Modernizes Wildfire Risk Planning
Press Release
9.3.25
New study shows proactive forest management reduces high severity wildfire by 88% and stabilizes carbon during extreme droughts
Press Release
6.27.25
New Research Shows How Wildfire Mitigation Efforts Could Save Communities Billions in Damages
New research and modeling published by Vibrant Planet Data Commons (VPDC) and Megafire Action shows how wildfire risk mitigation projects could deliver billions in avoided losses for seven wildfire-susceptible communities across the US.