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Project ID: 07-1-5-08

Year: 2007

Date Started: 09/05/2007

Date Completed: 05/16/2012

Title: Models for Fire Spread in the Wildland-Urban Interface

Project Proposal Abstract: Currently there are no fire spread models evaluated for use in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. A number of possible model approaches can be applied to WUI fires. They can range from the relatively simple rule or empirically based to the very complex physics based. Each approach has merit, depending on the needs and resources of the user (e.g, required prediction accuracy, computer resources, amount of input information known, turn-around time requirements). In the proposed work, a number of model approaches will be developed and evaluated. The approaches will differ by the degree of physics-based modeling used to capture the fire/fuel and fire/atmosphere interactions. The user input procedure and visualization package will be the same for all models. Evaluations of the approaches will result in recommendations for the next generation WUI fire spread models, for given user needs. The models and visualization package will be publicly downloadable. Beta users from the Forest Service will provide valuable feedback and input during the project.

Principal Investigator: William E. Mell

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Glenn Forney	NIST-National Institute of Standards & Technology	Engineering Laboratory
Co-Principal Investigator	Ronald Rehm	NIST-National Institute of Standards & Technology	Engineering Laboratory
Federal Cooperator	William E. Mell	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Federal Fiscal Representative	Sharon L. Rinehart	NIST-National Institute of Standards & Technology	Engineering Laboratory

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

Level	State	Agency	Unit
N/A

Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	9783	Refereed Publication	A Case Study of a Community Affected by the Witch and Guejito Wildland Fires
	9778	Refereed Publication	A Simple Model for Wind Effects of Burning Structures and Topography on Wildland-Urban Interface Surface-Fire Propagation
	9780	Refereed Publication	The Wildland-Urban Interface Problem-Current Approaches and Research Needs
	9781	Refereed Publication	Linking 3-D Spatial Models of Fuels and Fire: Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity on Fire Behavior
	9782	Refereed Publication	Numerical Simulation of the Interaction Between Two Fire Fronts in Grassland and Shrubland
	9779	Refereed Publication	Numerical Simulation and Experiments of Burning Douglas Fir Trees
	9785	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Fire and Materials
	9784	Conference/Symposia/Workshop	Wildland Fire Behavior Modeling: Perspectives, New Approaches and Applications
	9788	Photo	Illustrative Example: Visualized Using Smokeview, of a WFDS Simulation of a WUI Fire in Worley, Idaho
	9787	Photo	Photo of the Australian grassland experiment F19.
	9786	Photo	Snapshot from the wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator (WFDS) model run of the Australian grassland experiment F19

Supporting Documents

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