Skip to main content

FRAMES logo
Resource Catalog

Document

Type: Report
Author(s): Glen A. Morris
Publication Date: 1987

Summarizes past efforts to model fire spotting from wildland fires. Explains how Albini's spotting model for wind-driven surfaces was simplified with no loss in accuracy and the resulting model implemented in the BEHAVE fire prediction and fire modeling computer system and on the HP-71B calculator.

Online Links
Link to this document (4.0 MB; pdf)
Citation: Morris, Glen A. 1987. A simple method for computing spotting distances from wind-driven surface fires. Research Note INT-RN-374. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. 6 p.

Cataloging Information

Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fuels    Models    Weather
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Partner Sites:
Behave
Keywords:
  • fire management
  • fire modeling
  • fire physics
  • firebrands
  • spot fires
  • spotting
  • surface fires
  • wildland fires
  • wind
Tall Timbers Record Number: 5084 • Location Status: In-file • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
Record Last Modified:
Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 14031

This bibliographic record was either created or modified by Tall Timbers and is provided without charge to promote research and education in Fire Ecology. The E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database is the intellectual property of Tall Timbers.