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Type: Fact Sheet / Brief / Bulletin
Author(s): Northwest Fire Science Consortium
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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Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • crown fires
  • ground fires
  • surface fires
  • topography
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FRAMES Record Number: 57834