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Balch Fire Lab
Advancing fire science for a changing world

Balch Fire Lab
Advancing fire science for a changing world
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.