Welcome to FHIRE

Human communities have been a part of fire prone environments for millennia, but current understanding of human fire climate relationships, particularly those associated with high density human settlements in natural surroundings, is underdeveloped. This project develops paleoecological and model based evaluations to test alternative hypotheses of how human activities in ancient contexts analogous to modern communities at the Wildland-Urban Interface affect the resilience of forests and fire regimes to climate change over the last millennium.