Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Welcome

Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS)

This extension of the Fire Dynamics Simulator includes information about wildland fuels and fire to predict exposure and responses when wildfires occur on the edge of urban areas.

Fuel Treatment Effectiveness

Climate Change Research

The Pacific Northwest Research Station provides links to global climate change research projects

Just the Facts

Our series of fact sheets on new products, produced in cooperation with the FIREHouse project, provides a brief overview of the major product lines FERA has produced in recent years.

Cooperative Research

FERA is a team of Forest Service employees who work closely with a talented group of scientists, professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Washington schools of Environmental and Forest Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering.

We also cooperate with many other insititutions of higher learning across the United States.

Software and Electronic Databases

Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) is a single integrated software application that includes the newest versions of FCCS, Consume, FEPS, the Pile Calculator and the Digital Photo Series.

Forest Service Research Publications, including those written by members of the FERA team, which are available electronically can be found on the Treesearch website. A complete list of team publications is can be found on our website.

Digital Photo Series, an electronic version of the popular natural fuels photo series that, in the past, has been only available in print.

Pile Calculator, a tool to estimate accurately and efficiently the biomass of piled fuels

Fuel Characteristic Classification System, calculates fuel characteristics and fire potential in fuelbeds.

Consume 3.0 uses fuel characteristics, lighting patterns, conditions, and meteorological attributes to calculate consumption and emissions by phase.

Alvarado Shares FERA’s Fire and Climate Change Research at Convention in Cuba

Mexican Doctoral Student Visits PWFSL to Study WFDS

Measurements Relating to Fire Radiative Energy Density and Surface Fuel Consumption—RxCADRE 2011 and 2012

Effects of Dormant andGrowing Season Burning on Surface Fuels and Potential Fire Behavior in Northern Florida Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) Flatwoods

King Fire Salvage Logging Variable Retention Study

New Opportunity to Indicate Interest in Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE)

Website Updates on Hold

Consume

Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)

Fuel and Fire Tools

Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

Fuelbed Maps

GIS Layers for Mapping Fuelbeds

Pile Calculator

Photo Series