Balch Fire Lab

Advancing fire science for a changing world

A fire turns smoke clouds orange behind a town.
The Apple Fire burns north of Beaumont, California in July of 2020.
- Brody Hessin, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

The Balch Fire Lab is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to advancing the science of extreme disturbances, primarily wildfire events. Our team – comprising ecologists, data scientists, remote sensing experts, software developers, and fire scientists – leverages innovative data-driven approaches to study the dynamics of wildfires in a rapidly changing environment.