What happens when wildfires merge into one massive firestorm? Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and UC Irvine are ...

Multi-ignition wildfires are not overly common. But when individual fires do converge, the consequences can be catastrophic.

In December 2025, the group contributed to two presentations at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, developed in collaboration with the University of Wyoming, the NSF National Center ...

In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive ...

By combining AI aerial analysis with physics-based wildfire simulations, each tailored report quantifies the risk posed by vegetation, topography and building materials – translating complex data into ...