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Type: Fact Sheet / Brief / Bulletin
Publication Date: 2019
During a wildfire, it's not uncommon to have all three types of fire. The proportion of each type, however, can vary greatly day to day or even minute to minute depending on fuel, topography, and weather conditions. Fuel, topography, and weather drive a fire's behavior, and changes to any of three may cause a ground fire to emerge as a surface fire or a surface fire to escalate into a crown fire, or vice versa.
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Citation: Northwest Fire Science Consortium. 2019. What are? Types of fire. 2 p.
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- crown fires
- ground fires
- surface fires
- topography
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