A wildland–urban interface refers to the zone of transition between unoccupied land and human development. Communities that are within 0.5 mile (0.80467 km) of the zone may also be included. These lands and communities adjacent to and surrounded by wildlands are at risk of wildfire

Wildfire

A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

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Wildfire prevention in the wildland–urban interface

Hydro-pyrogeography is the term of art used to describe the prevention of and/or the interruption of the spread of wildfire occurrences, with the use of atmospheric generated water grassland and vegetation sprinkling and soaking systems, also known as the atmospheric generated water wildfire prevention system, placed strategically within any wildland–urban interface, anywhere world wide.

The term, coined by the inventor of the atmospheric generated water wildfire prevention system, hydro-pyrogeography compliments the geoscience study of wildfire and its behavior. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hydro-Pyrogeography.tif

See also

• Rural-urban fringe
• Urban sprawl
  Urban sprawl
  Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading outwards of a city and its suburbs to its outskirts to low-density and auto-dependent development on rural land, high segregation of uses Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a...
  
  
• Edge effect
  Edge effect
  The edge effect in ecology is the effect of the juxtaposition or placing side by side of contrasting environments on an ecosystem.This term is commonly used in conjunction with the boundary between natural habitats, especially forests, and disturbed or developed land. Edge effects are especially...
  
  
• Habitat
  Habitat
  * Habitat , a place where a species lives and grows*Human habitat, a place where humans live, work or play** Space habitat, a space station intended as a permanent settlement...
  
  
  • Habitat destruction
    Habitat destruction
    Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species present. In this process, the organisms that previously used the site are displaced or destroyed, reducing biodiversity. Habitat destruction by human activity mainly for the purpose of...
    
    
  • Natural landscape
    Natural landscape
    A natural landscape is a landscape that is unaffected by human activity. A natural landscape is intact when all living and nonliving elements are free to move and change. The nonliving elements distinguish a natural landscape from a wilderness. A wilderness includes areas within which natural...
    
    
  • Restoration ecology
    Restoration ecology
    -Definition:Restoration ecology is the scientific study and practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action, within a short time frame...