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NIST WUI FIRE DAYS

NIST WUI FIRE DAYS

NIST WUI Fire Days are a seminar series and workshop hosted by the WUI Fire research group. The event is an opportunity for collaborators and interested parties to learn about the latest WUI fire research at NIST. The diverse audience includes federal, state, and local government agencies, the fire service, non-governmental and professional organizations, researchers, and academic partners.

WUI Fire Days began in the early 2010’s as an in-person workshop of researchers at NIST and academic partners conducting research funded by NIST grants.

Starting in 2022, WUI Fire Days was expanded into an online broadcast seminar series to directly reach a wider audience. Archived recordings and presentations can be found below.

 

NIST WUI FIRE DAYS 2023

The 2023 WUI Fire Days seminar series took place through the month of November 2023.

The first two days presented the most recent results of the ongoing case study of the 2018 Camp Fire pertaining to the life safety aspects of the incident. These finding are reported in NIST Technical Note 2252 detailing the topics of notification, evacuation, traffic, temporary refuge areas, rescues, and fatalities (abbreviated as NETTRA). These topics were presented in four modules. 

Lessons from the Camp Fire can be applied and incorporated by other communities, as presented in NIST Technical Note 2262, titled “WUI Fire Evacuation and Sheltering Considerations—Assessment, Planning, and Execution.” A presentation of the concepts in that report were presented on Day 2, November 8, 2023.

The third day included presentations of recent experimental work on parcel-level fire spread hazards from small residential storage sheds (NIST Technical Note 2253) and firewood piles (NIST Technical Note 2251). A walkthrough of a new NIST webpage detailing the Hazard Mitigation Methodology was also presented.

Thank you to this year’s presenters, audience, and IT support staff for making WUI Fire Days a success. Content from the NIST WUI Fire Days can be found below.

 

DAY 1: NOVEMBER 1, 2023ReportSlidesRecordingStartSession
Opening Remarks, Dr. Joannie Chin, Director, NIST Engineering Laboratory  watch00:00:001.01
Opening Remarks, Chief Tonya Hoover, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Fire Administration  watch00:03:081.02
WUI Fire Days Overview  watch00:06:321.03
Camp 4 Module 1: Camp Fire Introduction and Pre-Fire Conditions and Planning for Notification and EvacuationTN 2252 &
TN 2252sup
viewwatch00:07:591.04
Q&A  watch00:46:011.05
Camp 4 Module 2: Notification Timeline, Evacuations, Traffic Flow and Road Closures (NETTRA)TN 2252 &
TN 2252sup
viewwatch00:56:021.07
Q&A  watch01:49:481.08
DAY 2: NOVEMBER 8, 2023ReportSlidesRecordingStartSession
Camp 4 Module 3: Burnovers and Temporary Refuges AreasTN 2252 &
TN 2252sup
viewwatch00:00:002.01
Q&A  watch00:49:132.02
Camp 4 Module 4: RescuesTN 2252 &
TN 2252sup
viewwatch00:56:152.04
Camp 4 Module 5: Camp Fire NETTRA SummaryTN 2252 &
TN 2252sup
viewwatch01:42:342.05
Q&A  watch01:47:172.06
ESCAPE: Evacuation and Sheltering Considerations – Assessment, Planning, and ExecutionTN 2262viewwatch01:54:482.08
Q&A  watch02:57:492.09
DAY 3: NOVEMBER 15, 2023ReportSlidesRecordingStartSession
Opening Remarks  watch00:00:003.01
NOSSE: NIST Outdoor Structure Separation ExperimentsTN 2253viewwatch00:02:283.02
Q&A  watch00:42:163.03
HMM T3: Hazard Mitigation Methodology Technology Transfer Toolwebpageviewwatch00:48:023.05
Q&A  watch01:14:423.06
Wind-driven Fire Spread from Firewood PilesTN 2251viewwatch01:25:013.08
Q&A  watch02:09:263.09
WUI Days Summary  watch02:16:153.10
Closing Remarks, Dr. Joannie Chin, Director, NIST Engineering Laboratory  watch02:32:573.11

 

NIST WUI FIRE DAYS 2022

The NIST WUI Fire Group hosted their most recent WUI Fire Days through the month of July 2022. The event was virtual for the first time and occurred over four consecutive Wednesdays. The event provided NIST the opportunity to share current research with a large, diverse audience dedicated to protecting people and structures from WUI fires.

 

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This year, in addition to work by NIST researchers, participants from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and the US Forest Service presented aspects of ongoing collaborative work on the Structure Separation Experiments (SSE).

The fourth session included presentations from the four active WUI fire-related research projects being conducted by academic partners funded through NIST’s Fire Research Grants Program.

Thank you to this year’s presenters, audience, and IT support staff for making WUI Fire Days a success. Content from the NIST WUI Fire Days can be found below.

 

DAY 1: JULY 6, 2022

Report

Slides

Recording

Start

Session

Opening Remarks

 

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0:00:00

1.0

Camp Fire Case Study Overview

 

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0:19:35

1.1

Camp Fire Case Study — Fire Progression Timeline

TN 2135

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0:34:46

1.2

Q&A

 

 

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1:37:34

 

Update on Camp Fire Notification, Evacuation, Traffic, Temporary Refuge Area (NETTRA) Report

TN 2252

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1:43:09

1.3

WUI Structure/Parcel/Community Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodology (HMM)

TN 2205

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1:53:30

1.4

Q&A

 

 

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3:03:30

 

DAY 2: JULY 13, 2022

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Recording

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Session

SSE Phase 1 Overview

 

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0:00:00

2.0

NIST Indoor Experiments

 

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0:19:33

2.1

Update on NIST Outdoor Experiments

 

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0:58:46

2.2

Q&A

 

 

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1:01:39

 

IBHS Outdoor No Wind Experiments

 

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1:23:33

2.3

Update on IBHS Cold-Flow Measurements

 

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1:47:47

2.4

Q&A

 

 

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1:55:17

 

SSE Modeling

 

 

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2:01:03

2.5

    Experimental Design (Ambient Wind Effects)

 

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2:04:47

2.5.1

    Model Validation (Wind and Heat Flux)

 

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2:17:23

2.5.2

    Experimental Design (Eave Ignition)

 

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2:30:50

2.5.3

    Structure Separation Distance Scoping

 

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2:47:17

2.5.4

Q&A

 

 

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2:59:16

 

SSE Phase 1 Summary

 

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3:08:53

2.6

DAY 3: JULY 20, 2022

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Slides

Recording

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Session

Parcel-level Hazard Mitigation Introduction

 

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0:00:00

3.0

NIST Fences Research and Findings

 

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0:14:35

3.1

Q&A

 

 

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0:58:43

 

NIST Emberometer Research

 

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1:04:43

3.2

2012 Waldo Canyon Fire (CO) Case Study

 

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1:34:58

3.3

HMM WUI Structure/Parcel/Community Design Considerations

 

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1:53:30

3.4

Q&A

 

 

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2:09:03

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

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2:17:20

3.5

Q&A

 

 

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2:41:00

 

DAY 4: JULY 27, 2022

Report

Slides

Recording

Start

Session

Introduction

 

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0:00:00

4.0

Evacuation: WUI-NITY 3: Multi-method traffic movement data collection for WUI fire evacuation modeling
   Prof. Steve Gwynne, PhD Lund University

 

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0:05:43

4.1

Q&A

 

 

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0:47:58

 

Evacuation: Developing AI-Based Wildfire Evacuation Behavior (AI-WEB) model
    Prof. Xilei Zhao, PhD University of Florida

 

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0:58:22

4.2

Q&A

 

 

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1:38:43

 

Firebrand/Ember Generation: Measuring source terms of firebrand generation numbers for physics-based models
    Prof. David Blunck, PhD Oregon State University

 

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1:49:43

4.3

Q&A

 

 

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2:44:18

 

Firebrand/Ember Generation: Quantification of firebrand production from WUI fuels for model development
    Prof. Michael Gollner, PhD and Hadi Hajilou, PhD University of California, Berkeley

 

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2:47:20

4.4

Q&A

 

 

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3:21:37

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

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3:25:53

4.5

 

Created February 13, 2025, Updated March 13, 2025