Communities are becoming increasingly concerned with the variety of choices related to wildfire evacuation. We used ArcView with Network Analyst to evaluate the different options for evacuations during wildfire in a case study community. We tested...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: McCaffrey, Fisher, Rice, Coleman, Price
Created Year: 2011
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reducing risk of loss due to wildfire in enhanced when forest fuels surrounding communities and individual structures are properly managed and are a part of the FireSmart concept. This report describes two test burns where a crown fire was burned into...
Person: Schroeder
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest...
Person: Viegas, Alexander, Stocks, Wotton, Lanoville
Created Year: 1998
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest...
Person: Alexander, Lanoville, Wotton, Stocks
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical...
Person: Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Created Year: 2010
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The present paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a wildland-urban interface setting. The model combines an empirical formula for wind-driven grass-fire spread and...
Person: Rehm, Mell
Created Year: 2009
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Computational tools have been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for modeling fire spread and smoke transport. These tools have been adapted to address fire scenarios that occur in the wildland urban interface (WUI)...
Person: Butler, Cook, Forney, Mell
Created Year: 2007
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel...
Person: Rupp, Ottmar
Created Year: 2006
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
With the advent of LANDFIRE fuels layers, an increasing number of specialists are using the data in a variety of fire modeling systems. However, a comprehensive guide on acquiring, critiquing, and editing (ACE) geospatial fuels data does not exist....
Person: Stratton
Created Year: 2009
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Major wildland/urban interface fire losses, principally residences, continue to occur. Although the problem is not new, the specific mechanisms are not well known on how structures ignite in association with wildland fires. In response to the need for...
Person: Weise, Martin, Cohen
Created Year: 1995
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES