The global wildland-urban interface
A systematic assessment of global areas of potential direct human-environmental conflict
- The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is where houses and wildland vegetation meet.
- The WUI is an area of human-environmental conflict such as wildfire.
- Our new analysis mapped the WUI globally at 10-m resolution from satellite data.
- The WUI covers 4.7% of the global land and is home to half the global population.
- WUI hotspots on all continents in including the US, Eastern Africa, and South-East Asia.