Improving understandings of public experiences with Rx fire in the WUI: Co-produced survey approach

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Rapid surveying provided nuanced, event-based insights into how households perceived individual prescribed fires, particularly related to air quality, risk, and access to information sources. We found that the success of these pilot efforts lay in co-production of survey content and administration with partners responsible for each prescribed fire, allowing administrative flexibility, additional social and planning context, and improved applicability of resultant recommendations. This article provides a template for other researcher-practitioner teams interested in developing social science research focused on rapid surveying, studying individual prescribed fires, or investigating other fire- or forest-related management activities internationally.