The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council is pleased to announce our second ever Wildfire Preparedness Exposition Friday and Saturday, October 14th and 15th! Click here to see the event flyer and learn more information.
The Hot-Dry-Windy Index: A New Tool for Forecasting Fire Weather
This paper explains the new Hot-Dry-Windy Index which will replace the Haines Index, which has been in place since 1988, to predict days with weather conditions present to contribute to extreme fire behavior.
The Fire Environment Concept
If We Imagine A Layer Of Vegetation Added To The Topography, We Have The Second Influence-the Fuel. It Is The Source Of Thermal Energy And The Driving Force Behind The Phenomena Of Fire Behavior.
Sundowner winds
Along the Pacific coastline, beneath the ridges and canyons of the Santa Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara, California enjoys some of the earth’s most favorable weather.
Native Peoples’ Relationship to the California Chaparral
Ethnographic interviews and historical literature reviews provide evidence that for many tribes of California, chaparral plant communities were a rich source of food, medicines, and technologies and that they supplemented natural fires with deliberate burning of...