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Six roads to safety: A critical threshold for wildfire survival

  • June 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Six roads to safety: A critical threshold for wildfire survival
If your community was threatened by a wildfire, would you be able to quickly evacuate? A new study from UC Santa Barbara reveals that the number of roads out of a community may be one of the strongest predictors of wildfire fatalities, and that a surprisingly specific threshold separates high-risk communities from safer ones.

Originally published at Phys.org

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