Fire from volcanic activity: quantifying the threat from an understudied hazard

• Main Authors: Quah, Jia Yong, Hayes, Josh L., Fitzgerald, Rebecca H., Lerner, Geoffrey A., Jenkins, Susanna F., Wilson, Thomas M., Scheele, Finn, Lukovic, Biljana, Fleischmann, Charles
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Fire; Eruption
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174049

Natural hazards can trigger fires that increase the area and severity of impacts beyond that caused by the initiating hazard. For some physical processes, such as earthquake, fires are a well appreciated and studied cascading hazard. However, fire from volcanic activity (FFVA) is a highly dangerous...