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

Figure 5

ArcFuels interface within ArcMap, showing images from an analysis of a fuel treatment prescription calling for a sequence of thinning, surface fuel reduction, underburn, and wildfire with the supplied demonstration data. (a) Digital orthophoto with stand boundaries for the project area; (b) access database containing forest and fuel information; (c) simulating vegetation dynamics and wildfire with FVS (d) viewing the output spreadsheets, including ArcFuels-generated graphs from the simulation showing fire behavior variables in the potential fire output report; (e) SVS image depicting the wildfire pretreatment; (f) SVS images depicting the treatment sequence including the wildfire behavior after the treatment was completed.