Fuel model

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A fuel model is used in the wildland fire community to classify sites for use in fire prediction models. The National Park Service defines it as a standardized description of fuels available to a fire based on the amount, distribution and continuity of vegetation and wood. [1]

[edit] Sources

  • Estimating Fire Behavior. USDA-Forest Service Intermountain Forest and. Range Experiment Station, General Technical Report INT-122. Andrews
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