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SUBMITTER: Radeloff VC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879688 | biostudies-other | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180312 13
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses and wildland vegetation meet or intermingle, and where wildfire problems are most pronounced. Here we report that the WUI in the United States grew rapidly from 1990 to 2010 in terms of both number of new houses (from 30.8 to 43.4 million; 41% growth) and land area (from 581,000 to 770,000 km<sup>2</sup>; 33% growth), making it the fastest-growing land use type in the conterminous United States. The vast majority of new WUI areas were t ...[more]