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Good Fire Weather
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- Remote Automated Weather Station data (used in Figure 2)
- CAL FIRE FRAP prescribed fire perimeter data (used in Figure 1)
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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
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CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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