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Good Fire Weather

Good Fire Weather

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Authors

Benjamin Hatchett , Emily M. Wells

Abstract

Extreme fire weather receives substantial attention from the weather enterprise, yet conditions allowing readily manageable fire, or ’good fire weather’ remains less studied with no formal definition. Here, we define good fire weather as ”the set of atmospheric conditions before, during, and following ignition allowing wildland fire to achieve beneficial outcomes while minimizing hazards from fire and smoke.”We explain beneficial fire outcomes and share examples of the multiscalar challenges in observing and forecasting good fire weather to inform decision making using schematics and a case study. Guidance for how the weather enterprise can support good fire forecasting is provided.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/X54435

Subjects

Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

Keywords

Beneficial Fire, Wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire weather

Dates

Published: 2025-07-25 14:41

Last Updated: 2025-07-25 14:41

License

CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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Conflict of interest statement:
None