Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

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Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is available for downloading and use on personal computers to calculate fuel characteristics and fire potential in fuelbeds.

Software Update Mailing List

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.

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 School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Software and Electronic Databases

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

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

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.

Northwest Consortium Offers Webinars on FERA Research

Discovery Channel (Canada) Features RxCADRE Burns

FCCS Covers Asia! Emission Modeling In Asia Uses Methods Developed at the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory

NIST and Forest Service Create World’s First Hazard Scale for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

PNW’s Twitter Feed

Research on Fire Emissions Information Support System Expanded Receives Continued Support from NASA

Ruddy Mell Featured Speaker at Fire Conference in Russia

Wildland Fire Emissions, Carbon and Climate: Characterizing Wildland Fuels

Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

GIS Layers for Mapping Fuelbeds

Pile Calculator

Photo Series

Fuelbed Maps

Consume

Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)