The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The growing complexity and duration of wildland fires continues to challenge the capability and expertise of U.S. Forest Service agency administrators, fire managers and the wildfire response system as a whole. As wildfires become more complex and the risk to firefighters, the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and conditional burn probabilities…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Environment Mapping System (FEMS) is a new wildland fire IT application which will support wildland fire preparedness and decision-making with better access to fire environment datasets and online analysis tools. FEMS will support a core principle of the Cohesive…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Wildland Fire and USGS created the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Clearinghouse to meet the Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It provides an interactive…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service).
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool is intended to help fire managers assess COVID-19 risk in fire camp at the incident level. The tool is intended to promote situational awareness, identify mitigations within the scope of control, and help line officers, incident…
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WildfireSAFE was designed to increase firefighter & fire manager situation awareness and enhance risk mitigation planning in wildland fire operations. It supports the greater interagency fire community in the planning, response, and recovery phases of wildfire management. By…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Heinsch, Bevins, Tirmenstein
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler, Wagenbrenner
Wind is one of the most important environmental factors affecting wildland fire behavior. Complex terrain in fire-prone landscapes induces local changes in the near-surface wind that are not predicted well by either operational weather models or expert judgment. WindNinja was…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a system to collect, store and manage current weather information, and to provide access to historical data. WIMS replaced the Administrative Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System (AFFIRMS) as the host for the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Lutes, Reinhardt, Gangi
First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Heinsch, Bevins, Schelvan, Tirmenstein, Noonan, Jolly, Bartlette, Scott, Stratton, Seli, Kelley, Carlton, Custer
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is an interactive processing system that allows the trained satellite analysts in the Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB), within the Satellite Services Division (SSD), to manually integrate data from automated fire detection algorithms using GOES and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
MesoWest is an ongoing cooperative project between researchers at the University of Utah, forecasters at the Salt Lake City National Weather Service Office, the NWS Western Region Headquarters, and personnel of participating agencies, universities, and commercial firms. The goal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is a weather modeling system for mesoscale numerical predictions for atmospheric research and operational forecasting.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
LCP Critique is a small standalone program that allows users to import an LCP file (a landscape file; constituted of fuel model, canopy cover, stand height, crown base height, and crown bulk density layers) and generate summary information that can be used to critique the data.…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental product uses to information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the Alaska Range…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler
WindWizard is no longer supported by the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab as the underlying software is not readily available. Much of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling within the WindWizard framework was added to the WindNinja software.
WindWizard is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The RAWS USA Climate Archive website provides detailed Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) observations for all stations in the United States, along with weather station information, maps, graphs,and photos. Weather observations are archived, with past and current hourly…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) assists fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents. It has replaced the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis), Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP), and Long-Term Implementation…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES