5109.14,0 Code Page 1 of 3 FSH 5109.14 - INDIVIDUAL FIRE REPORT HANDBOOK, FORM FS-5100-29 WO AMENDMENT 5109.14-95-1 EFFECTIVE 9/5/95 ZERO CODE The Individual Fire Report, Form FS-5100-29, is used to record data for planning and administering fire management activities. The format provides information to various administrative levels in the National Forest System with minimum impact at the level where the report is produced. Program managers use the data collected from the fire report to monitor and report program performance and plan the fire management organization. Fire researchers use the data in the analysis of operational fire activities. 03 - POLICY. Forest Service officials at National, Regional, and forest administrative levels shall use the national fire occurrence data base or direct derivatives to prepare any required summaries of fire activity and ensure that such summaries are based on consistent data. 04 - RESPONSIBILITY. 04.1 - Regional Foresters. Regional Foresters are responsible for: 1. Establishing appropriate local reporting and review requirements to ensure that national reporting objectives are met at all times; and 2. Ensuring that the Regional fire record is complete and accurate in the national fire occurrence data base. 04.2 - Forest Supervisors. Forest Supervisors are responsible for: 1. Ensuring that fire reports for the calendar year are entered into the national fire occurrence data base within the time standards in section 06; and 2. Ensuring that the forest fire record is complete and accurate in the national fire occurrence data base. 04.3 - District Rangers. District Rangers are responsible for preparing a complete and accurate report on each statistical wildfire on Form FS-5100-29, Individual Fire Report, within the time standards in section 06. 04.4 - Reporting Unit Manager. The manager of the reporting unit, identified in section 13.3, is responsible for providing a report to all affected Forest Service units included in the Form FS-5100-29, Individual Fire Report, within the time standards in section 06. 05 - DEFINITIONS. Appropriate Suppression Response. The planned strategy for suppression action (in terms of kind, amount, and timing) on a wildfire which most efficiently meets fire management direction under current and expected burning conditions. The response may range from a strategy of prompt control to one of containment or confinement. Confine. To limit fire spread within a predetermined area principally by use of natural or preconstructed barriers or environmental conditions. Suppression action may be minimal and limited to surveillance under appropriate conditions. Contain. To surround a fire and any spot fires therefrom with control line, as needed, that can reasonably be expected to check the fire's spread under prevailing and predicted conditions. Control. To complete the control line around a fire, any spot fires therefrom, and any interior islands to be saved; to burn out any unburned area adjacent to the fire side of the control line; and to cool down all hot spots that are immediate threats to the control line, until the line can reasonably be expected to hold under foreseeable conditions. Escaped Fire. A fire that has exceeded, or is anticipated to exceed, preplanned initial action capabilities, fire management direction, or selected appropriate suppression response. Fire Management Direction. Fire management standards, guidelines, and practices based upon land and resource management objectives. Fire management direction is used to define the kind, level, and timing of fire protection and use activities, including the appropriate suppression strategies, that efficiently meet management objectives for each management area for the range of expected fire behavior conditions. Forest Service acres. The total of National Forest System lands within a fire perimeter regardless of Region and forest. Initial Action. The prompt, preplanned response to a wildfire. Net Value Change (NVC). The sum of the changes in resource values on a land area that results from increases (benefits) and decreases (damages) in resource outputs as a consequence of fire. Non-FS Acres Protected by FS. The total of non-National Forest System lands within Forest Service protection boundaries regardless of ownership. Outside FS Protection. The total of non-National Forest System lands outside Forest Service protection boundaries. Prescribed Fire. A wildland fire burning under preplanned, specified conditions to accomplish specific planned objectives. It may result from either a planned or unplanned ignition. Prescribed Natural Fire. A fire resulting from a natural ignition that is designated and managed as a prescribed fire. Statistical Wildfire. A wildfire that burns uncontrolled in vegetative or associated flammable material and either requires suppression action to protect natural resources or values associated with natural resources, or is destructive to natural resources. Total Fire Acres. The total acres burned within a fire perimeter regardless of ownership. Unplanned Ignition. A fire started at random by either natural or human causes, or a deliberate incendiary fire. Wildfire. An unwanted wildland fire not designated and managed as a prescribed fire, and requiring appropriate suppression action. 06 - TIME FRAMES FOR REPORTING. Report prepares must enter complete, accurate data into the national fire occurrence data base no later than January 15 of the year after discovery regardless of whether or not the fire is declared out (FSM 5183.2). Reports must be correct and complete in the national fire occurrence data base according to the following reporting time frames: 1. Small Fires. Within 10 days after the suppression strategy was met for small fires. 2. Large Fires. a. Within 10 days after the fire is declared out when the difference between suppression strategy met and fire out is less than 20 days; or b. Within 20 days after the suppression strategy was met for large fires when the fire out date will be delayed more than 20 days after the suppression strategy was met. Once the fire is declared out, the report preparer at the reporting unit shall update the fire report to reflect the actual date the fire was declared out.