Prescribed Burning Websites
There are many websites with valuable information about prescribed fire in the Southeast. While not individually listed here, the following agencies and organizations are found in most Southeastern states. They can provide state-specific resources on topics such as liability, regulations, and financial and technical assistance.
- State Forestry Agency
- State Wildlife Agency
- State Prescribed Fire Council (find yours here)
The following websites provide regionally relevant information about prescribed fire. The information on these websites can be used for purposes including staff and landowner training events, outreach publications, and public relations campaigns.
- Amazing Creatures of Longleaf Flatwoods (USDA, 2020)
- Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists
- Current Fire Danger Maps (Southern Area Coordination Center)
- eFIRE Prescribed Fire Training (NC State University)
- Keeping Fire on Our Side (US Fish and Wildlife Service)
- Fire & Landscapes (The Nature Conservancy)
- Good Fires (Southern Group of State Foresters)
- Great Plains Fire Science Exchange
- Landscape Partnership Portal – Home of the Southeast FireMap (NRCS and partners)
- NWCG Publications
- Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium
- Prescribed Fire (USDA Forest Service)
- Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Site (Tall Timbers Research Station)
- Southeastern Cohesive Fire Strategy
- Southern Fire Exchange
- Southern Research Station Prescribed Fire Research Communications (USDA Forest Service)
- Why Prescribed Fire (Florida Forest Service and Tall Timbers Research Station, 2020)
- Wildland Fire (Landscape Partnership Portal)
The following websites include information that is not strictly related to prescribed fire, but may be helpful in communicating about closely related topics such as wildfire preparedness.
- AirNow and the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map (EPA)
- Fire Adapted Communities
- Firewise USA (National Fire Protection Association)
- Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal (SouthWRAP)
- Wildfire Risk to Communities
- Wildfire Risk Research and Insights (Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety)
- Wildfires (Ready.gov)
Have a website you’d like to see here? Send an email to lekays@ncsu.edu!