[Excerpted from text] As is well known, certain meteorological conditions are exceptionally favorable to the inception and the spreading of fires in the forested regions of this country. These conditions, although varied and due at times to somewhat different causes, have come to be known, for lack of a better term, "fire weather."

[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]