With the creation of the Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) (http://www.fs.fed.us/fcamms), the USDA Forest Service has begun to develop a deeper understanding of how a fire interacts with the overlying atmosphere. One of the FCAMMS, the Eastern Area Modeling Consortium (EAMC), has developed new products designed to improve atmospheric predictions around and above a fire using this new physical understanding (Heilman, et al, 2005). Two prototype products are now available: 1) a system that provides additional weather information for use in BEHAVE (Andrews, 1989) fire behavior calculations, and 2) an index that addresses the potential for deep plume growth and resulting erratic fire behavior.