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FOR-438 Introduction to
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FOR-438 Tool Data Flow Overview
Data re-runs
FBAT (Fire Behavior Assessment Tool) FlamMap
ACT (Area Change Tool)
FRCC Mapping Tool
MRIT (Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool)
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Tool Data Flow
FlamMap

• Available from fire.org web site
• Outputs raster maps of potential fire behavior
• Rate of Spread (ROS)
• Flame length (FL)
• Crown fire activity (CFA)
• Uses same input files as FARSITE
• Landscape (.LCP)
• Initial Fuel Moistures (.FMS)

Data output
FBAT (Fire Behavior Assessment Tool)
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Damn Wendel, why do we keep crashing the Area
Change interface? Hhhmmmm..Must be an
inverted command line code, causing a data stream
interruption.
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Objectives

• Provide cursory overview of the FlamMap model
• Learn the minimum inputs required for making
  FlamMap runs
• Understand layers to be synthesized in Fire
  Behavior Assessment Tool (FBAT)
• Complete exercise, and discuss FlamMap outputs
  and uses

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Why add fuel planning skills?

• Girls only like boys with great skills.
  Nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills.
• Instead of I caught you a very delicious
  bass..
• I integrated WUI, FRCC, and absolute fire
  behavior in the MRIT. Gosh.

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What is FlamMap?

• Fire Behavior Model that creates raster maps of
• Potential fire behavior characteristics
• Rate-of-spread
• Flame length
• Crown fire activity
• Fireline intensity
• Horizontal spread rate
• Fuel Conditioning (advanced options)
• Dead fuel moisture
• Mid-flame windspeeds
• Solar irradiance

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Basic Steps to run FlamMap

• Acquire a landscape file (.lcp) and fuel moisture
  file (.fms) for area of interest
• Provide required inputs describing environmental
  conditions
• Select the desired output layers
• Launch FlamMap and interpret results

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How does it work?

• Pixel based each pixel burns independently
  fire behavior is not influenced by neighboring
  pixels
• Uses ASCII grids
• NOT temporal - uses constant weather and fuel
  moisture parameters
• Partially spatial does not map fire perimeters
  or incremental growth
• Uses same spatial and tabular data as FARSITE
  (.lcp and .fms files)

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Spatial Input DataASCII grids of

• Topographic data
• Elevation (DEM)
• Slope
• Aspect
• Fuels data
• Fire behavior fuel model (FBFM 13 or 40)
• Stand height
• Canopy base height
• Canopy bulk density
• Canopy cover

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Model ParametersInput by User

• Fuel moisture file (.fms), by fuel model
• Dead 1-hr, 10-hr, 100-hr,
• Live herbaceous, woody
• Canopy foliar moisture (75 125)
• 20-ft wind speed (above crown)
• Wind direction (directly upslope or from azimuth)

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Output Data

• Rate of Spread
• Flame Length
• Crown Fire Activity (each pixel classified as
  unburned, surface, passive crown, active crown)

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What is a landscape file?

• A grid containing rasterized spatial inputs of
  topographic and fuels information for a landscape
  of interest
• Potential problem LANDFIRE ArcGRIDS
• Solution Convert ArcGrids to ASCII in
  ArcToolbox
• LCP files downloadable from National Map website
• Build LCP file in FlamMap from ASCII grids

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Preparing Input Data

• Converting ArcGRIDs to ASCII format

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At National Map website, under download and
FARSITE tabs, select landscape file
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Getting Startedbuilding the landscape (lcp) file
ASCII file inputs
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Selecting Input Parameters
Weather/Fuels Parameters
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Selecting Fuel Moisture Wind Parameters

• Dependent upon your analysis objectives
• Worst case potential wildland fire behavior?
• Comparing outcomes of multiple burning
  prescriptions?

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Building the Fuel Moisture File
FM 1-hr 10-hr 100-hr LH LW

• Text file
• Acquire from Fuels
• Specialist, NFDRS
• Potential Editors
• Note Pad
• Word Pad

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Selecting Outputs
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FlamMap Demo and Exercise
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Exercise Review

• When is flame length the overriding concern?
• When is rate of spread the most important
  consideration?
• Does one layer have more relevance to
• Firefighter safety?
• CWPP or WUI planning?
• Selective thinning followed by burning?
• Fire effects modeling?

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Exercise Review

• What are obvious limitations to FlamMap?
• Would it be helpful to have the outputs
  classified into key thresholds (e.g., Hauling
  chart, nomograms, etc.)?

20 mph windspeed, general wind
50 mph windspeed, cold front passage
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FOR-438 Tool Data Flow Overview
Data re-runs
FBAT (Fire Behavior Assessment Tool) FlamMap
ACT (Area Change Tool)
FRCC Mapping Tool
MRIT (Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool)
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