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Closing the gap between wildfire modeling and real-world response

Canada's 2023 wildfire season burned more than 18.5 million hectares (45.7 million acres), an area larger than Greece. As fires like these grow more frequent and unpredictable, a team of UBC Okanagan researchers has taken stock of two decades of work applying operations research to the problem and found a field that has matured quickly but still struggles to get its best ideas out of journals and into the field.

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Closing the gap between wildfire modeling and real-world response
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