Patrick Freeborn

Treesearch Publications

• Benjamin E. Sweeney, W. Matt Jolly, Patrick Freeborn, Chloe L. Ochocki. 2026. ClassiFiRxe: A data-driven tool to support prescribed fire planning and implementation
• W. Matt Jolly, Patrick Freeborn, Larry S. Bradshaw, Jon Wallace, Stuart Brittain. 2024. Modernizing the US National Fire Danger Rating System (version 4): Simplified fuel models and improved live and dead fuel moisture calculations
• Adrian Jimenez-Ruano, W. Matt Jolly, Patrick Freeborn, Daniel Jose Vega-Nieva, Norma Angelica Monjaras-Vega, Carlos Ivan Briones-Herrera, Marcos Rodrigues. 2022. Spatial predictions of human and natural-caused wildfire likelihood across Montana (USA)
• Patrick Freeborn, W. Matt Jolly. 2022. Nighttime fire activity is on the rise in the United States: Posing greater risks to firefighters and communities
• Patrick Freeborn, W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Gareth Roberts. 2022. Large wildfire driven increases in nighttime fire activity observed across CONUS from 2003-2020
• Benjamin Poulter, Patrick Freeborn, W. Matt Jolly, J. Morgan Varner. 2021. COVID-19 lockdowns drive decline in active fires in southeastern United States
• Martin J. Wooster, Gareth J.l Giglio Roberts, David P. Roy, Patrick Freeborn, Luigi Boschetti, Chris Justice, Charles Ichoku, Wilfrid Schroeder, Diane Davies, Alistair M. S. Smith, Alberto Setzer, Ivan Csiszar, Tercia Strydom, Philip Frost, Tianran Zhang, Weidong Xu, Mark C. de Jong, Joshua M. Johnston, Luke Ellison, Krishna Vadrevu, Aaron M. Sparks, Hannah Nguyen, Jessica McCarty, Veerachai Tanpipat, Chris Schmidt, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz. 2021. Satellite remote sensing of active fires: History and current status, applications and future requirements
• Wesley Page, Patrick Freeborn, Bret W. Butler, W. Matt Jolly. 2019. A classification of US wildland firefighter entrapments based on coincident fuels, weather, and topography
• W. Matt Jolly, Patrick Freeborn, Wesley Page, Bret W. Butler. 2019. Severe Fire Danger Index: A forecastable metric to inform firefighter and community wildfire risk management
• Wesley Page, Patrick Freeborn, Bret W. Butler, W. Matt Jolly. 2019. A review of US wildland firefighter entrapments: Trends, important environmental factors and research needs
• Andrew T. Hudak, Patrick Freeborn, Sarah A. Lewis, Sharon M. Hood, Helen Y. Smith, Colin C. Hardy, Robert J. Kremens, Bret W. Butler, Casey Teske, Bob G. Tissell, Lloyd P. Queen, Bryce L. Nordgren, Benjamin C. Bright, Penelope Morgan, Philip J. Riggan, Lee Macholz, Leigh B. Lentile, James P. Riddering, Edward E. Mathews. 2018. The Cooney Ridge Fire Experiment: An early operation to relate pre-, active, and post-fire field and remotely sensed measurements
• W. Matt Jolly, Patrick Freeborn. 2017. Towards improving wildland firefighter situational awareness through daily fire behaviour risk assessments in the US Northern Rockies and Northern Great Basin
• Patrick Freeborn, W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane. 2016. Impacts of changing fire weather conditions on reconstructed trends in U.S. wildland fire activity from 1979 to 2014
• Matthew P. Thompson, Patrick Freeborn, Jon Rieck, Dave E. Calkin, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Mark A. Cochrane, Michael Hand. 2016. Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: A case study of the Las Conchas Fire
• Patrick Freeborn, Mark A. Cochrane, W. Matt Jolly. 2015. Relationships between fire danger and the daily number and daily growth of active incidents burning in the northern Rocky Mountains, USA
• W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman. 2015. Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013
• Charles Ichoku, J. Vanderlei Martins, Yoram J. Kaufman, Martin J. Wooster, Patrick Freeborn, Wei Min Hao, Stephen Baker, Cecily A. Ryan, Bryce L. Nordgren. 2008. Laboratory investigation of fire radiative energy and smoke aerosol emissions
• Patrick Freeborn, Martin J. Wooster, Wei Min Hao, Cecily A. Ryan, Bryce L. Nordgren, Stephen P. Baker, Charles Ichoku. 2008. Relationships between energy release, fuel mass loss, and trace gas and aerosol emissions during laboratory biomass fires

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  WildfireSAFE

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/wildfiresafe

• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Climate Change on Global Fire Danger

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/globalfiredanger
• Project
  

  National Fire Danger Rating System

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firedangerrating
• Project
  

  Reconstructing U.S. Wildland Fire Trends

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/wildlandfiretrends

Other Publications

• Notes
  

  WildfireSAFE: A tool to provide rapid, actionable intelligence to inform risk-based decision making for wildland fire operations

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/understory/wildfiresafe-tool-provide-rapid-actionable-intelligence-inform-risk-based-decision