A Nationwide Benchmark for Wildfire Initial Attack Failure Prediction with Public Environmental Data (opens in new tab)

Initial attack (IA) is the first wildfire suppression phase, when agencies must quickly decide which fires may escape early control. Existing IA failure prediction studies often use non-public response records or regional settings, so it remains unclear how well public data available at fire discovery time can support IA failure prediction at national scale. We present WILDFIREIA, the first U.S. national-scale benchmark for IA failure prediction...