Wildland Fire Decision Support Systems (WFDSS)
What is WFDSS?
- A system consistent with accepted models of risk-informed decision making that presents a risk characterization that supports wildland fire decision making
- A system that makes risk characterization intuitive, logical, relevant, understandable, and accessible
- A system that is an information-goal directed process
Frequently Asked Questions
Documentation
(unless otherwise noted are .pdf)
- Zaca Demo Decison Documentation
- National Large Fire Protocols v4.0 .doc
- Forest Service Large Fire Are Burned and Suppression Expenditure Trends, 1970-2002
- Modeling Fuel Treatment Costs on Forest Service Lands in the Western United States
- Estimating Supression Expenditures for Individual Large Wildland Fires
- Venture Capital on Wildfire Suppression Costs 2008
- Gunbarrel Wildland Fire FSPro Analysis, Interim Report
- NWCG_001-2009 Memorandum Update on Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy
- Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models: A Comprehensive Set for Use with Rothermel's Surface Fire Spread Model
- Using Social Science to Understand and Improve Wildland Fire Organizations: An Annotated Reading List
- Guidance on Spatial Wildland Fire Analysis: Models, Tools, and Technique
Training
- How to download LCP file from WFDSS .pps
- WFDSS Overview v1.2 .ppt
- WFDSS 2009 Training (v1.3)
- WFDSS System Subsections and Information Flow .ppt
- What is FSPro?
- R5 IMT WFDSS 2007 .ppt
- WFDSS
System Content and Element Descriptions
.ppt