title: Forest-fire model with natural fire resistance.
abstract: Observations suggest that contemporary wildfire suppression practices in the United States have contributed to conditions that facilitate large, destructive fires. We introduce a forest-fire model with natural fire resistance that supports this theory. Fire resistance is defined with respect to the size and shape of clusters; the model yields power-law frequency-size distributions of model fires that are consistent with field observations in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
authors: Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. yoder@physics.ucdavis.edu
authors: Mark R
authors: MR
authors: Yoder
authors: Donald L
authors: DL
authors: Turcotte
authors: John B
authors: JB
authors: Rundle