Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: a fire front spreading fastest downwind over hill terrain, embers and the smoke plume
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
Heat, drought and wildfire are the hazards of the warm, dry end of the climate system.
The model
From a forecast temperature to a heat-health alert: how humidity, an exposure-response curve and a baseline turn heat into excess deaths
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a forecast temperature to a heat-health alert: how humidity, an exposure-response curve and a baseline turn heat into excess deaths
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
Courses in development extend the scope to further subjects: Wildfire risk management; Heat-health action planning.
For public health officers, water managers, fire agencies, agricultural analysts and planners who monitor heat, drought and fire danger and need to know what each index measures and what it leaves out.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Heat, drought and wildfire's own model runs in the scene at the top of this page: set its parameters there and play the steps. The separate chart simulator is left off this page so that it stays within its size budget.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow heat, drought and wildfire on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
The boundaries, names and designations shown do not imply any judgement on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries. Countries: Natural Earth (public domain).
The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Heat, drought and wildfire.
Search termsHeat, drought and wildfire; Heatwaves and heat stress; Drought types and indices; Drought monitoring and early warning; Wildfire behaviour and fire weather; Wildfire smoke and healthDerived from the Risk Academy page on Heat, drought and wildfire.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Heat, drought and wildfire, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in heat, drought and wildfire, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
The courses from connected disciplines below also teach this field.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
Start with Wilhite, then Gasparrini, then Perkins.
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The catalogue lists each course with its outcomes, labs, hours and level.