Despite the increasing challenges wildfires are posing around the globe, and the flourishing production of high-quality wildfire scientific knowledge, the ability of fire science to impact knowledge on the ground, for people, society, economy, and the environment, in a way that facilitates change in the current wildfire management system has been limited. We believe that one reason for this limited impact is due to the fragmentation of this scientific knowledge. Therefore, we propose a Translational Wildfire Science (TWFS) as a new field of knowledge that captures the comprehensive dynamics of wildfire events, that provides information relevant, useful, and accessible to practitioners and citizens, and that facilitates the transfer of scientific knowledge into practice. The foundations of TWFS, including the main principles, the overarching characteristics, and the approach of a TWFS scientist, are presented. Finally, the next steps to be undertaken to consolidate TWFS as a new scientific field are identified.

尽管野火在全球范围内带来的挑战越来越大，并且高质量野火科学知识的蓬勃发展，但火灾科学影响地面知识的能力，为人类、社会、经济和环境，以某种方式促进变化的当前野火管理系统已经有限。我们认为，造成这种有限影响的一个原因是这种科学知识的碎片化。因此，我们建议将转化野火科学 (TWFS) 作为一个新的知识领域，它可以捕捉野火事件的综合动态，为从业者和公民提供相关、有用和可访问的信息，并促进科学知识转化为实践. TWFS 的基础，包括主要原则，介绍了总体特征和 TWFS 科学家的方法。最后，确定了将 TWFS 整合为一个新的科学领域要采取的后续步骤。