Article ID: | iaor20011384 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 492 |
End Page Number: | 499 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1999 |
Journal: | Forest Science |
Authors: | Gilless J. Keith, Fried Jeremy S. |
Keywords: | geography & environment, simulation: applications |
A fire behavior module was developed for the California Fire Economics Simulator version 2 (CFES2), a stochastic simulation model of initial attack on wildland fire used by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Fire rate of spread (ROS) and fire dispatch level (FDL) for simulated fires ‘occurring’ on the same day are determined by making coordinated draws from compound distributions characterizing 2 preventive maintenance fire behavior indices such as ROS, then adjusting these draws using diurnal adjustment coefficients derived from hourly fire weather observations. Statistical examination of historical fire occurrence and predicted behavior data validated CFES2's use of independent fire occurrence and fire behavior modeling processes.