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The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is a national system for rating the risk of forest fires in Canada. Forest fire danger is a general term used to express a variety of factors in the fire environment, such as ease of ignition and difficulty of control. Fire danger rating systems produce qualitative and/or numeric indices of fire potential, which are used as guides in a wide variety of fire management activities. The CFFDRS has been under development since 1968. Currently, two subsystem, the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, are being used extensively in Canada and internationally.

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Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fire Effects    Fuels    Hazard and Risk    Models    Planning    Weather
Regions:
Alaska    International
Keywords:
  • BUI - CFFDRS Buildup Index
  • CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
  • DC - CFFDRS Drought Code
  • DMC - CFFDRS Duff Moisture Code
  • FBP - CFFDRS Fire Behavior Prediction System
  • FFMC - CFFDRS Fine Fuel Moisture Code
  • fuel types
  • FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
  • ISI - CFFDRS Initial Spread Index
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FRAMES Record Number: 10494