Wildland Fire Management
Content related to NASA’s agency-wide efforts in wildland fire management.
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In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia's Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the…

With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers…

Scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have been working with the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) to create low-cost thermal sensors to…

Anyone who has seen a launch at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida knows the agency’s pursuit of the stars…

A Michigan Tech field team of five arrived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on July 27, 2025, for a nine-day field…

Editor’s Note: This article was updated March 27, 2025, to reflect the final dates for the testing period. NASA researchers…

As 2018 closed, Discover Magazine blogger Tom Yulsman posted to his ImaGeo blog about the most gripping image he’d seen during the year. The…

The 1988 image shows scars left by a wildfire that consumed 1.2 million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park…

On April 5, 2016, four fires sparked by downed power lines merged and burned almost 57,500 acres near Freedom, OK,…



