Integrating Fire Behavior Models and Geospatial Analysis for Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Fuel Management Planning

Table 2

Fire behavior output variables from FlamMap for a static simulation where fire is simulated for all pixels on the input landscape file.

Fire behavior value	Simulation type	Output type	Units
Spread vectors	Static	Vector	m min^−1
Major paths	MTT	Vector	N/A
Flow paths	MTT	Vector	N/A
Flame length	Static	Grid	m or ft
Rate of spread	Static/MTT	Grid	m min^−1 or ft min^−1 or ch hr^−1
Fireline intensity	Static/MTT	Grid	kW m^−1 or BTU ft^−1 sec^−1
Heat per unit area	Static	Grid	kW m^−2 or BTU ft^−2 sec^−1
Crown fire activity	Static	Grid	Index (0, 1, 2, or 3)
Midflame windspeed	Static	Grid	mi hr^−1 or km hr^−1
Horizontal movement rate	Static	Grid	m min^−1 or ft min^−1 or ch hr^−1
Max spread direction	Static	Grid	Radians or degrees
Elliptical dimension	Static/MTT	Grid	m min^−1 or ft min^−1 or ch hr^−1
Arrival time	MTT	Grid	min
Node influence	MTT	Grid	Frequency
Burn probability	MTT	Grid	Interval [76]

N/A denotes not available.