Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Welcome

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.

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 Forest Resources.

Software and Electronic Databases

Handpile Calculator, a tool to accurately and efficiently estimated the biomass of hand-piled fuels

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

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

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.

FIREHouse, the Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse provides information about fire science and technology. It provides access to the results of fire research efforts

Responding to Climate Change in National Forests: Guidebook for Developing Adaptation Options

Study Compares Consume 3.0 and FOFEM in the Eastern United States

Understanding the Role of Terrain and Wind Interactions on Fire Spread through Communities

Upslope Grass Fires Help Test Fire Behavior Models

U.S. National Forests Adapt to Climate Change Through Science-Management Partnerships

Newsletter Moving to Distribution Six Times a Year

Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

GIS Layers for Mapping Fuelbeds

Pile Calculator

Photo Series

Fuelbed Maps

Consume

Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS)

Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse)