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Project ID: 09-1-07-4

Year: 2009

Date Started: 06/01/2009

Date Completed: 01/09/2013

Title: A Fire Severity Mapping System (FSMS) for Real-Time Fire Management Applications and Long-Term Planning

Project Proposal Abstract: Fire severity mapping technologies are critical tools for 1) identifying severely burned areas, 2) facilitating enlightened wildfire management, and 3) implementing costly rehabilitation and restoration efforts. We propose to create a Fire Severity Mapping System (FSMS) for the western United States that will deliver the most appropriate fire severity map product for the right fire management application in the right time frame. This FSMS will be composed of a suite of digital maps, simulation models, and analysis tools that are integrated into a comprehensive system for the creation of fire severity maps provided at several temporal scales of fire management application: 1) real-time forecasts and assessments in wildfire situations, 2) wildfire rehabilitation efforts, and 3) long-term planning. This fire severity system would NOT replace the suite of burn severity products currently used by fire management (e.g., BARC and BAER severity maps), but rather, FSMS would complement these products to provide a more comprehensive fire severity mapping product. Three products would result from this project: 1) a wall-to-wall, 30 m fire severity map created using empirical modeling, 2) a computer program that creates a fire severity map from LANDFIRE input data for real-time wildfire or wildland fire use applications, and 3) a comprehensive procedure for melding simulated fire severity predictions with satellite-derived burn severity for an accurate severity product 2-6 weeks after the fire.

Principal Investigator: Robert E. Keane

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Fire, Fuel & Smoke Science Program

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Gregory K. Dillon	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Eva C. Karau	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Penny M. Morgan	University of Idaho	Department of Forest Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Pamela G. Sikkink	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Missoula
Collaborator/Contributor	Zack A. Holden	University of Idaho	Department of Forest Resources
Federal Cooperator	Wendel J. Hann	University of Idaho	Rangeland Ecology & Management
Federal Fiscal Representative	Susan T. Major	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station

Project Locations

Consortium

Northern Rockies

Level	State	Agency	Unit
NATIONAL		FS

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
	9440	Refereed Publication	A Method for Mapping Fire Hazard and Risk Across Multiple Spatial Scales and its Application in Fire Management
	10263	Refereed Publication	Both Topography and Climate Affected Forest and Woodland Burn Severity in Two Regions of the Western US, 1984 to 2006
	10264	Refereed Publication	Mapping the Potential for High Severity Fire in the Western United States
	10267	NonRefereed Publication	The National Tree-List Layer
	10278	NonRefereed Publication	FIRESEV: A Fire Severity Mapping System for Real-Time Fire Management Applications and Long-Term Planning
	10266	NonRefereed Publication	Predicting Fire Severity Using Surface Fuels and Moisture
	10272	Photo	A fire severity classification
	10271	Photo	Maps of fire severity comparing simulation modeling with satellite imagery
	10270	Photo	The Severe Fire Potential Map
	10274	Photo	A study area for one of the FIRESEV projects

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