The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety research center in Chester County conducts full-scale wildfire experiments in the interest of learning how to better protect homes from fires.

Since 2000, wildfires have destroyed an average of seven million acres each year. And with rising global temperatures from climate change, the threat is growing exponentially. Researchers at labs and ...

Civil and environmental engineering researchers conducted unique live fire experiments to study the kinematics of firebrands, burning embers cast off from wildfires that cause spot fires leading to ...

Nearly three years since the Lookout Fire tore through the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest near Blue River Reservoir in ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two upcoming experiments by the Sandia National Laboratories could cause a plume of black smoke to be visible in Albuquerque. The two controlled fire experiments will take ...

Bright flecks of burning wood stream through the smoky air and toward a hapless house. Before the one-story structure, the glowing specks, each merely centimeters in size, seem insignificant. But each ...