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Type: Conference Proceedings
Coordinator(s): James B. Davis; Robert E. Martin
Publication Date: 1987
A small number of fires escape initial attack suppression efforts and become large, but their effects are significant and disproportionate. In 1983, of 200,000 wildland fires in the United States, only 4,000 exceeded 100 acres. However, these escaped fires accounted for roughly 95 percent of wildfire-related costs and damages (Pyne, 1984). Thus, future research efforts logically will focus on the difficult and complicated task of modeling large fires.
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Citation: Dimitrakopoulos, A. P.; Martin, R. E. 1987. Concepts for future large fire modeling. Pages 208-211. In: Davis, James B.; Martin, Robert E. (technical coordinators). Proceedings of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000, April 27-30, 1987, South Lake Tahoe, California. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-101. Berkeley, CA: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station.
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- fire modeling
- large fire
- NFMAS - National Fire Management Analysis System
- stochastic simulation
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