Explore by Topic

The FRAMES topic portals contain information relevant to topics of interest within the wildland fire community. Currently, FRAMES identifies 29 topics, 26 reflecting categories proposed by wildland fire researchers and managers originally as part of a draft of the National Wildland Fire Enterprise Architecture developed by the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (NWCG) in the early 2000s. The goal of FRAMES is to have the topic portals be collaborative spaces, managed by subject matter experts in conjunction with other content providers and content users.

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Administration

Highlights resources related to overall fire management, scheduling, employment, and/or program and project management. Go to the Administration topic page.

Aquatic

Highlights resources related to water, including streams, wetlands, ponds, lakes, watersheds, and their corresponding riparian areas. Go to the Aquatic topic page.

Aviation

Highlights resources related to aircraft operations supporting fire and resource management. Go to the Aviation topic page.

Climate

Highlights resources related to the prevalent or characteristic meteorological conditions of any place or region, and their extremes. Go to the Climate topic page.

Communications

Highlights resources related to communications in support of fire management activities. Go to the Communications topic page.

Economics

Highlights resources related to the economic impacts of fire, including, but not limited to, the impacts of prescribed fires and natural wildland fires, the loss of species habitat, and the potential regeneration of resources following fire. Go to the Economics topic page.

Emissions & Smoke Portal

Partner-sponsored site providing access to information about smoke and emissions from wildland fire, including the online Smoke Management and Air Quality for Land Managers online tutorial. Go to the Emissions & Smoke Portal.

Fire Behavior

Highlights resources related to the study and management of the direction, spread and intensity of wildland fire. Go to the Fire Behavior topic page.

Fire Ecology

Highlights resources related to the study of the interactions between fire and living organisms and their environment. Go to the Fire Ecology topic page.

Fire Effects

Highlights resources related to the study and management of the effects of wildland fire on the environment. Go to the Fire Effects topic page.

Fire History

Highlights resources related to the range of fire frequency, severity, extent, and spatial complexity, as well as the role of fire in ecosystems and the feedbacks that link fire, climate, vegetation, and management decisions. Go to the Fire History topic page.

Fire Occurrence

Highlights resources related to the average number of fires in a specified area during a specified time period. Go to the Fire Occurrence topic page.

Fire Prevention

Highlights resources related to the activities, including education, engineering, enforcement and administration, that are directed at reducing the number of wildfires, the costs of suppression, and fire-caused damages to resources and property. Go to the Fire Prevention topic page.

Fuels

Highlights resources related to the study of fuels, including, but not limited to, fuel categories, fuel properties, fuel moisture, plant flammability, fuel availability, and fuel consumption. Go to the Fuels topic page.

Hazard & Risk

Highlights resources related to the study of hazards associated with wildland fire in the environment as well as risk management and risk assessment. Go to the Hazard & Risk page.

Intelligence

Highlights resources and activities related to the detection, information correlation, and statistical observations of data associated with wildland fire. Go to the Intelligence topic page.

Logistics

Highlights resources related to the detailed coordination of a large and complex wildland fire operation. Go to the Logistics topic page.

Mapping

Highlights resources related to the graphical representation of geographic or spatial data relevant to wildland fire. Go to the Mapping topic page.

Models

Highlights resources related to quantitative and qualitative models relevant to wildland fire. Go to the Models topic page.

Monitoring & Inventory

Highlights resources related to the monitoring and/or inventorying of resources relevant to wildland fire. Go to the Monitoring & Inventory topic page.

Outreach

Highlights resources related to systematic attempts to provide wildland fire information and services to a community or group. Go to the Outreach topic page.

Planning

Highlights resources related to identifying, defining, and determining courses of action to achieve predetermined wildland fire management goals and objectives. Go to the Planning topic page.

Prescribed Fire

Highlights resources related to wildland fires ignited and managed to attain planned fire treatment and resource management objectives. Go to the Prescribed Fire topic page.

Regulations & Legislation

Highlights resources related to rules and laws pertaining to wildland fire. Go to the Regulations & Legislation topic page.

Restoration & Rehabilitation

Highlights resources related to restoration and rehabilitation activities designed to accelerate postfire ecosystem recovery. Go to the Restoration & Rehabilitation topic page.

Safety

Highlights resources related to wildland fire safety policies and procedures. Go to the Safety topic page.

Social Science

Highlights resources related to the interrelationships of individuals in a social environment including social organizations and institutions. Go to the Social Science topic page.

Weather

Highlights resources related to fire weather, including its interactions with fire behavior and fuels. Go to the Weather topic page.

Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

Highlights resources related to places where potentially flammable vegetative fuels meet or overlap with structures and other human development. Go to the Wildland-Urban Interface topic page.