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Useful Definitions

  • Fire Danger Index: A relative number indicating the severity of wildland fire danger as determined from burning conditions and other variable factors of fire danger. 1
  • Fire Danger Rating: A fire management system that integrates the effects of selected fire danger factors into one or more qualitative or numerical indices of current protected needs. 1
  • Fire Danger Rating System: The complete program necessary to produce and apply fire danger ratings,including data collection, data processing, fire danger modeling, communications, and data storage. 1
  • Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (WFSA): A decision-making process that evaluates alternative wildfire suppression strategies against selected environmental, social, political, and economic criteria, and provides a record of those decisions 1
  • A continuous fire-step process that provides a systematic method for identifying and managing the risks associated with any operations. 1

Tools

  • PRA: Probabilistic Risk Assessment
  • DSS: Decision Support System
  • FDRS: Fire Danger Rating Systems

Systems

Canada

  • CFFDRS: Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

  • CFFBPS: Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System

  • CWFIS: Canadian Wildland Fire Information System

  • FireMARS: Fire Monitoring, Accounting, and Reporting System

  • sFMS: spatial Fire Management System

  • Fire M3: fire monitory, mapping, and modeling system

  • CFS: Canadian Forest Service

  • CIFFC: Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre

  • FWI: Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index Documentation

  • FFMC: Fine Fuel Moisture Code

  • ISI: Initial Spread Index

  • DSR: Daily Severity Rating

  • BUI: Build-Up Index

  • DMC: Duff Moisture Code

  • DC: Drought Code

US

Australia

  • FFDI: McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index
  • GFDI: McArthur Grassland Fire Danger Index
  • FFWI: Fosberg Fire Wether Index (FFWI)
  • AFDRS: Australian Fire Danger Rating System

Misc

  • MSR: Monthly Severity Rating
  • WUI: Wildland Urban Interface
  • InFORM: Integraded Forest Resource Management System for National Forests
  • IRWIN: Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information

  1. Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎