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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...