The Applied Research on WUI Fire Risk Prevention and Control

Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fire is a new and important research field in forest fire fighting. This paper summarizes research status of WUI fire risk prevention and control, analyzes disaster inducement factors for it, and simply describes two typical WUI fire cases in China. Finally, two measures to improve the level of WUI fire risk monitoring and control are suggested, from aspects of improving academic research and building informatization system of risk monitoring and early warning, seperately.