This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will advance understanding of how structural collapse influences fire behavior in residential communities, particularly in wildfire-prone regions. At the single-building scale, collapse during fires alters fire behavior by changing compartmentation, ventilation, fuel distribution, flame-spread pathways, and ember generation, with effects pronounced in light-frame wood structures, the most common residential construction in the United States. At the neighborhood scale, collapse can cause direct flame contact by toppling burning structures onto adjacent ones, introduce fuel into the space between buildings, and increase ember flux toward neighboring buildings, collectively leading to cascading fire spread in densely built areas. However, these interactions remain poorly understood and are rarely addressed in existing fire modeling tools. This project will address this critical gap and contribute to safer building design, improved neighborhood planning, and firefighter safety. The project will also integrate research with education by training students and engaging them in hands-on research and design activities, with research outcomes incorporated into coursework and design-based learning. These activities will equip students with practical skills in analyzing fire-induced collapse and designing fire-resilient structures and neighborhoods, strengthening the future workforce in fire safety and structural engineering. By addressing knowledge gaps in fire hazards and developing tools and insights for mitigating them, this project serves the national interest by promoting public safety and community resilience. This project aims to develop a comprehensive understanding and modeling framework for collapse-induced fire dynamics in light-frame wood structures at both the single-building and neighborhood scales. The research integrates experimental and computational approaches. Full-scale and scaled fire experime