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2.4.2026

New Study Unveils How Communities Can Tackle Wildfire Risk Reduction Faster, Together, and With Clearer Priorities

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11.4.2025

Protecting What Matters Most: Fire Aside Brings Communities Best-in-Class Structure Exposure Data from Vibrant Planet and Pyrologix

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9.22.2025

The Forest Fire Paradox: Remove Trees to Protect Forest Carbon Sinks

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1.10.2024

Why is ML Happening Now?

The AI Revolution & Climate Change, Part 2

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1.4.2024

Inside the Forest

Stories about people, places, and innovation in the movement to restore healthy ecosystems and climate resilience.

Forest health

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1.3.2024

What is the different between Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML)?

The AI Revolution & Climate Change, Part 1

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10.17.2023

Implementing the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission’s Recommendations

Fire risk & planning

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1.9.2026

Seeing How Communities Are Built—and Why It Matters for Wildfire

Community & policy

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7.9.2025

How Collaborative, Comprehensive Data is Transforming Wildfire Preparedness

Community & policy

Fire risk & planning

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12.1.2024

Predicting the Cause of Wildfires

Fire risk & planning

Science & research

Data Story

12.1.2024

How Wildfires are Changing

Fire risk & planning

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Case Studies

Real-world outcomes for communities and landscapes using Vibrant Planet

How the Central Colorado Forest Collaborative is swiftly preparing for wildfire resilience

Landscape resilience

Placer County’s Collaborative Approach to Community Wildland Fire Resilience

Landscape resilience

Marin County Develops 11 Essential Projects to Reduce Fire Risk

Community wildfire resilience

Truckee Fire Protection District Builds Consensus in Record Time

Community wildfire resilience

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2026

A collaborative, cloud-based decision support system for structured wildfire risk mitigation planning

Safford, H.; Miller, C.; Perrot, D.; Gilbert, S.; Hoecker, T.; Koontz, M.; Kornhauser, K.; Thompson, M.; Shannon, J.; Rutenbeck, N.; Scott, J.; Conway, S.; Duffy, K.

Ecological Modelling

Peer-Reviewed Paper VP PBC View →

2026

Advances in decision support platforms for prioritizing investments in forest and rangeland restoration, risk reduction and biodiversity conservation

Ager, A.; Safford, H.

Advances in Optimization and Wildfire (Springer, Lecture Notes in Operations Research)

Book Chapter VP PBC View →

2025

Continuous monitoring finds enhanced watershed functions coincident with reduced wildfire severity within treated areas

Shannon, J.; Thompson, M.P.; Gannon, B.M.

Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025

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2025

Opportunities for intentional fire use and opportunity costs of no action

Hoecker, T.J.; Harvey, B.J.

Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025

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2025

Fire severity deficits and surpluses across ecosystems of the United States

Koontz, M.J.; Hoecker, T.J.

Association for Fire Ecology Conference 2025

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2.4.26

From Static Assessments to Actionable, Collaborative Mitigation Priorities: Peer-Reviewed Study Shows How the Vibrant Planet Platform Modernizes Wildfire Risk Planning

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9.3.25

New study shows proactive forest management reduces high severity wildfire by 88% and stabilizes carbon during extreme droughts

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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.

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