BWARE
Post-Wildfire Natural Hazards
Dashboard
Acknowledging The Many Sources of
Post-fire Natural Hazards Data
To create the Post-Wildfire Natural Hazards Dashboard, members of the BWARE team carefully reviewed thousands of records of post-wildfire natural hazards, with sources that included scientific publications, technical reports, other hazard inventories, news reports, and more.
We carefully extracted all of the information provided about each hazard, verified the details to the best of our ability, attempted to correct any errors we may have discovered, augmented and standardized the disparate recordkeeping across the many international data sources, and finally, organized and categorized the data so that it could be presented as single global record. While we have invested substantial effort to create this database, we are nevertheless not the original source of most of the identified hazard events. Credit for identifying most of the hazards goes to our many colleagues across the science community (both past and present), as well as professional practitioners, news reporters, and many others.
In our Dashboard, we include details about the original identifying source for every hazard within its attributes, which you can find by clicking on an individual hazard point in the map. We will also continue to update and maintain this webpage to cite the many sources of original data that has made this effort possible.
Finally, if you know of any post-fire natural hazard publications or events that you cannot find in our database, then please submit this information through our Report a Hazard page and you may be added to the list!
Data Sources & Literature References:
North America
Canada
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Brideau, M.-A., Hancock, C.-A., Brayshaw, D., Lipovsky, P., Cronmiller, D., Geertsema, M., Tannant, D., Friele, P., Wong-Teichroeb, H. & Wells, G. (2025). Preliminary Canadian Landslide Database (Version 11.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15291248
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Mexico
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United States
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France
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Italy
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Japan
Touge, Y., Hasegawa, M., Minegishi, M., Kawagoe, S., & Kazama, S. (2023). Multitemporal UAV surveys of geomorphological changes caused by postfire heavy rain in Kamaishi city, northeast Japan. CATENA, 220, 106702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106702
Russia
Semenova, O., Lebedeva, L., Volkova, N., Korenev, I., Forkel, M., Eberle, J., & Urban, M. (2015). Detecting immediate wildfire impact on runoff in a poorly-gauged mountainous permafrost basin. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60(7–8), 1225–1241. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.959960
South Korea
Lee, K., Lee, C., & Eu, S. (2022). Temporal Trend in Landslide Occurrences in Post-fire Areas over the Past Two Decades. Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, 22(4), 47–55. https://doi.org/10.9798/KOSHAM.2022.22.4.47
Lee, K.-H., Uchida, T., & Seo, J.-P. (2022). Monitoring of Post-Fire Bedload Transport Using Hydrophone in a Small Burnt Catchment, South Korea. Forests, 13(11), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111774
Shin, S. S., Park, S. D., & Lee, K. S. (2013). Sediment and hydrological response to vegetation recovery following wildfire on hillslopes and the hollow of a small watershed. Journal of Hydrology, 499, 154–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.06.048
Taiwan
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Oceania
Australia
Colls, S., & Miner, A. S. (2021). Bushfires, landslides and geotechnical challenges in the Otway Ranges, Victoria. NZGS Symposium 2021. Good Grounds for the Future, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Keeble, T., Lyell, C. S., Lane, P., Nyman, P., Noske, P. J., & Sheridan, G. (2024). A landscape scale model to predict post-fire debris flow impact zones. Geomorphology, 455, 109175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109175
McGuire, L.A., Ebel, B.A., Rengers, F.K., Vieira, D.C.S, & Nyman, P. (2024), Postfire Debris-Flow Database (Literature Derived): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13STASQ.
Nyman, P., Rutherfurd, I. D., Lane, P. N. J., & Sheridan, G. J. (2019). Debris flows in southeast Australia linked to drought, wildfire, and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Geology, 47(5), 491–494. https://doi.org/10.1130/G45939.1
Nyman, P., Sheridan, G. J., Smith, H. G., & Lane, P. N. J. (2011). Evidence of debris flow occurrence after wildfire in upland catchments of south-east Australia. Geomorphology, 125(3), 383–401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.10.016
Tulau, M. J., McInnes-Clarke, S. K., Yang, X., McAlpine, R. A., Karunaratne, S. B., Zhu, Q., & Morand, D. T. (2019). The Warrumbungle Post-Fire Recovery Project—Raising the profile of soils. Soil Use and Management, 35(1), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.12467
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Worthy, M. (2003). A history of fire and sediment transport in the Cotter River catchment, southeastern Australia. [Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University]. https://doi.org/10.25911/5d514d0c48a09
South America
Chile
Martini, L., Faes, L., Picco, L., Iroumé, A., Lingua, E., Garbarino, M., & Cavalli, M. (2020). Assessing the effect of fire severity on sediment connectivity in central Chile. Science of The Total Environment, 728, 139006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139006
Picco, L., Scalari, C., Martini, L., Pellegrini, G., Faes, L., Sanhueza, D., Mazzorana, B., & Iroumé, A. (2020). How to deal with large wood recruitment after wildfires? Analysis, aspects and considerations for improving post-fire management. In River Flow 2020. CRC Press.
Ramírez, P., Carrasco, F., & Astudillo, F. (2023). Evaluación de peligro de remoción en masa en seis sectores de la comuna de Galvarino y cinco sectores de la comuna de Lumaco afectados por incendios forestales, región de La Araucanía (p. 22) [Technical Report]. National Geology and Mining Service. https://repositorio.sernageomin.cl/handle/0104/25941
Africa
Uganda
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