Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

CHARACTERIZING FUELS IN WILDLANDS

Characterizing forest and rangeland vegetation, collectively known as fuels, is the critical and initial step in understanding the effects of fire in wildlands.

FFT (Fire and Fuel Tools)
FCCS
Photo Series
Digital Photo Series
Fuelbed Mapping
Southeast Burning Seasons

CHARACTERIZING SMOKE FROM WILDLAND FIRES

The amount of live and dead vegetation consumed during a fire, and the rate of that consumption, is critical to estimating air quality impacts as well as the short-term effects of fire on the ecosystem.

Piles
Consume
Consume Validation
Boreal Consumption
Southern Bulk Density

FEPS
Shrubs
Regional Haze
Firefighter Health

FUEL TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Guidance for planning fuel treatment projects to meet the goals, such as reducing fire hazard over time, is provided through several publications and fact sheets, as well as ongoing research.

Butte Falls Blowdown
Publications and Projects
Tripod Project in Okanogan NF
Cedar River Municipal Watershed
Effects of Burning Season in SE Forests
Evaluating Alternative Fuel Treatments in South Lake Tahoe
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Activities in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Developing a Post-Processor to Link the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FIRE REGIMES, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, AND FOREST MANAGEMENT
Boreal Fire History
Spatial Carbon Emissions
Western Mountain Initiative
Climate Adaptation Toolkit
North Cascadia Adaptation Partnership
Fire-Insect Disturbance Impacts on Carbon Budgets
Fire and Climatic Variability in the Inland Pacific Northwest

FIRE BEHAVIOR IN THE WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE

Studies of fire physics, and how fire behaves when moving from the wildlands into an urban environment.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Activities in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS)
STANDFIRE: An IFT-DSS Module for Spatially Explicit 3D Fuel Treatment Analysis
Evaluation of Optimization of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness with an Integrated Experimental/Modeling Approach

TARGETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

International

Washington

Naches Smoke Management
Tripod Project in Okanogan NF
Cedar River Municipal Watershed in Seattle
FCCS Demonstration Project in Wenatchee NF
Fire History and Spatial Pattern in Eastern Washington

Oregon

Re-Measurement of Fuels and Stand Structure 13 Years After Logging of the Summit Fire, Malheur National Forest, Eastern Oregon

Alaska

Frostfire Project near Fairbanks

Eastern U.S.

Savannah River Site

Consume Models in the Eastern U.S.

California

FCCS Fuelbeds for Lake Tahoe Basin

Evaluating Alternative Fuel Treatments for the Lake Tahoe South Shore Wildland-Urban Interface

DATA ARCHIVES

Archival of Data from JFSP Projects Conducted by the Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team

OUTREACH AND TRAINING

Information on fire science activities, and classes on interpreting fire science and climate change, are are integral part of the research process.

FIREHouse
Software Tutorials
Regional Fuels Workshops
Classes, Presentations and Workshops

Fire Modeling Institute

Missoula Fire Lab

AirFIRE Team

National Fire Plan

Joint Fire Science Program

Pacific Northwest Region