Fire WeatherFire weather is a term used for the meteorological conditions that promote the spread of wildfire. Hydrological, topographical, and vegetation conditions also impact the spread of fire. Fire Weather Offices are those WFOs assigned responsibility to provide fire weather services for specified areas. Fire Danger is the result of both constant factors (fuels) and variable factors (primarily weather) that affect the ignition, spread, and difficulty of control of fires and the damage they cause. Prescribed Burn is fire applied to wildland fuels in a definite place for a specific purpose under exacting weather and fuel conditions (the prescription) in order to achieve land management objectives. Wildfire is any free burning and uncontainable wildland fire that is not a prescribed prescribed burn and that consumes the natural fuels and spreads in response to its environment. Wildlands are any non urbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation (e.g., forests, grasslands, rangelands). Source |
