Research in Fire Engineering: Integrating WUI Fire Risk Management into the Fire Safety Engineering

As WUI fires are posing great management challenges in terms of civil protection and fire loss mitigation, the creation of fire-adapted communities that can safely co-exist with wildfires has become a growing necessity. The presentation covers how Fire Safety Engineers can contribute to enhance WUI fire safety and resilience in alignment with the Disaster Risk Management cycle, along with existing methodologies when it comes to quantitative WUI fire risk assessment, which are applied to a case study located at the WUI of the city of Barcelona (Spain).

Pascale Vacca, PhD