How To Prevent Brushfires

Brushfires are nature’s way of clearing out the old to make room for the new. Eliminating fallen trees, logs, stumps, and other vegetative debris sustains forest health.

Don’t brush off the threat of brushfires.

Brushfires are dangerous and can quickly get out of control. In 2023, more than 56,000 wildfires burned 2.5 million acres across the United States, destroying 4,318 structures, including 3,060 homes. The total cost was $300 billion to $893 billion. That’s a hefty price to pay.

Burning questions—and answers—to prevent brushfires.

What’s fueling the rise in brushfires? Lightning strikes and extreme heat are two primary reasons. Climate change, forest mismanagement, unsustainable development, and human accidents, such as a stray campfire match, all play a role. How can we address the brushfire threat? Employing prescribed burns is essential but can have adverse effects. Whenever feasible, opting for air curtain technology helps minimize particulate matter and smoke, offering a more environmentally friendly solution.

Air Burners’ advanced technology helps stop brushfires. Brushfires can happen quickly and unexpectedly. While it’s impossible to eliminate the threat, taking the right steps at the right time can help control the spread and protect the land, animals, and residents.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, forested land makes up 33.2% or 304 million hectares of the United States. That’s about 8% of the world’s forests. Nearly each of the 50 states has a national forest or grassland. From the boreal forests in Alaska to the majestic redwoods in the west, the deciduous treetops in the east and the pines of the south, to the tropical rainforests in Hawaii. Air Burners offers a wide variety of machines that can handle whatever nature throws their way.

Today, more than ever, our advanced technology is helping to turn the tide and stop brushfires in their tracks. Left unchecked, the damage brushfires leave in their wake can impact everyone, from disrupting the ecosystem to displacing humans to destroying animals’ natural habitat.

Mother Nature and human nature both contribute to brushfires through widespread droughts, careless actions, and even criminal arson. You can take strategic steps to prevent brushfires, including eliminating dead wood waste such as fallen trees, logs, slash piles, and other biomass debris that acts as a kindle to start and spread brushfires. An innovative brushfire prevention strategy can do more to affect forest health than just prevent brushfires. Trimming trees, clearing land, and eliminating dead vegetative debris give sunlight and rain more room to nurture natural, sustainable growth. A green planet improves the quality of life for everyone—animals and humans alike.

Air Burners is ready and more than able to answer the call. Smart brushfire prevention strategies combined with our innovative technology are a surefire way to meet success.

The FireBox Series

Air Burners offers a variety of 21st-century machine solutions that can help prevent brushfires. The FireBox is the world’s most proven wood waste burner and the end solution to eliminate wood waste. The portable FireBox ships fully assembled and ready to help prevent brushfires. It’s fast, safe, and cost-effective. No grinding, chipping, or trips to landfills, so no extra fuel or labor costs and no tipping fees. That’s just for starters. Compare the true cost of the FireBox S330 to eliminate 100 tons of wood waste per hour, and the savings really start to add up. The all-in cost to operate the FireBox S330 is just $520 for each hundred tons. The typical grinding & hauling is $6,300 for each hundred tons. Direct hauling is even more: $7,300 for each hundred tons.

The FireBox clears land and the air, too. The air curtain pollution control technology gets rid of unwanted woody debris 40x faster than open burning and reduces smoke by 98%, leaving 2% biochar to mix with the soil.

The FireBox 300, 200, and 100 Series help lower operation costs and the risk of brushfires. No matter the challenge, there’s a FireBox for every job of any size. The FireBox is the only machine that has been performance-tested and meets the specifications of the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Armed Forces.

The Boss Series

Like all Air Burners, the Boss series accepts whole trees, slash piles, and practically any felled biomass debris. There’s no grinding, hauling, preprocessing, or permanent facility required. The Boss Series combines power and performance to prevent brushfires. Each machine offers different technological advantages that give you an edge over nature. Choose the aboveground air curtain burner that’s right for your operation.

BurnBoss

The first trailerable FireBox quickly earned a reputation as a trailblazer. Logging roads, off-roads, remote forests, no problem. The BurnBoss gets you deep into the woods and back.

CharBoss

Air Burners teamed up with the USDA Forest Service in a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) partnership to develop the world’s first mobile biochar production system. The CharBoss converts wood waste into biochar onsite. It burns up to 2 tons per hour, leaving 20% return of biochar. Easy to handle in small spaces, it effortlessly glides between fencing, trees, and obstacles. Mix the nutrient-rich biochar in the soil to improve forest health or sell it at the market to boost your bottom line.

TrackBoss

At the press of a button, the remote-controlled TrackBoss can access hard-to-reach places and safely eliminate whole trees, logs, root balls, and other woody debris. Like the other above-ground FireBox Boss machines, the trailer-mounted TrackBoss delivers a clean and fast burn—up to 40% faster than an open pit burn and creates 98% less smoke.

Trench Burner

The ultra-portable TrenchBurner is the world’s most popular wood waste burner. Similar to the FireBox but with a slight difference. A trench dug into the ground replaces the thermal ceramic burn chamber, hence the name. The manifold containing the air curtain is part of the trailerable system, making it easy to tow.

Combine and conquer.

PGFireBox + BioCharger are energizing the fight to prevent brushfires.

PGFireBox

The portable PGFireBox recycles biomass waste into biomass power. We call this innovative process Closed-Circle Recycling. You’ll call it the perfect solution to work on the grid and eliminate woody debris cost-efficiently. There are no permanent facilities— disassembles for easy relocation.

BioCharger

The BioCharger is the most recent addition to our line of technologically advanced machines. Designed to work off-grid in remote locations, like forests, and generate electricity from biomass waste. The burn rate is fast—up to 9 tons of whole trees, branches, logs, and root balls per hour. The BioCharger stores the energy and recharges machinery and vehicles onsite, so you can work by day to prevent brushfires and recharge at night. Developed by Air Burners through a successful partnership with Volvo and Rolls Royce to create a cost effective renewable energy solution.

Brushfire prevention helps foster forest and economic health Air Burners can help to reduce the risk of brushfires from lightning strikes, extreme heat, widespread drought, and human accidents. No matter the cause, we have the right machine to have a positive effect. Prescribed burns go a long way to removing the brushfire threat. Environmental experts agree that clearing excess biomass debris is vital to reducing forest fuel loads that can ignite and spread brushfires.

Sustainable forest management is vital to our planet’s health and economic well-being. Resilient forests spread health and wealth, improving air quality and quality of life. Each year, we grow more timber than we harvest. The takeaway is that the United States is doing more to protect and manage our forests and improve sustainable growth. That’s good news for today and tomorrow. Forest restoration creates jobs and fuels economic development in other areas, such as tourism, recreation, wood based products, and even energy creation. Air Burners is the end solution for eliminating wood waste and the best solution to prevent brushfires.

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REFERENCES:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/speeches/state-forests-and-forestry-unitedstates-1

https://www.dryad.net/post/wildfires-usa-statistics#:~:text=Wildfire