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Running a Basic Fire Behavior (BFB) Analysis

The WFDSS Basic Fire Behavior (BFB) model requires the following information to perform fire behavior calculations:

WFDSS BFB automatically provides nearly all of the necessary information to perform fire behavior calculations. In BFB, the Fire Behavior Specialist (FBS) can adjust the inputs (weather, winds fuel moistures, and landscape data) as needed:

Fire Behavior Requester Reminder details information you can provide to the Analyst that improves the run results.

CAUTION: Changing the analysis date, RAWS station, or burn period information, automatically repopulates the hourly records and overwrites your changes.

To run a BFB:

  1. From the Incident list, select the incident for which you want to run a BFB.
  2. Click View Analyses. The Analysis List appears for the selected incident.
  3. Under New Analysis, select Basic, then click Create Analysis for Incident. The New Basic Analysis page appears. (You can also copy an existing analysis.)
  4. Enter an Analysis Name. The analysis name cannot contain an apostrophe or backslash; the cursor blinks if you try to add these characters and a message displays that these characters are disabled.

    Since incidents can have many analyses associated with them, be specific in your name (up to 48 characters). For example, "Red Valley BFB 06152009 1300 jdoe" would be the Red Valley fire, BFB run on June 15, 2009 at 1 pm by Jane Doe.

  5. Set the hours and conditioning days. The hour field is the time at which the fuels conditioning will stop.
  6. Set the foliar moisture content and select a crown fire method.
  7. Set the spread options in degrees (to simulate backing, flanking, or head fire).
  8. Verify the RAWS station information.
  9. Click Create. The Detailed Basic Fire Behavior page appears.
  10. Verify the following items:
  11. Create a landscape file and edit it if necessary. (See Creating the Landscape File and Editing a Landscape File.)
  12. Use the requirements fly-out menu on the right to ensure all required components are completed.
  13. Click Run Basic Fire Behavior. The Analysis List page reappears and displays the new analysis with a Queued status.

Depending on the landscape size and resolution, as well as the traffic on the server, the analysis could take several minutes to run. Refresh your browser to see the status change to Complete, then select the analysis and click View Results to see the analysis on the map view.

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Analysis for Fire Behavior Specialists

To run a BFB:

See Also

Viewing Fire Behavior Request Details

Accepting or Refusing an Analysis Request

Granting Analysis Privileges

Downloading a RAWS KMZ File

Analysis Notes

About Analysis Shape Files (STFB, NTFB, FSPro)

Drawing a Landscape Extent

Creating a Landscape Editor Rule

Importing Landscape Editor Rules

Creating the Landscape File

Downloading an LCP File

Editing the Landscape File

Modifying Landscape File Parameters

Viewing the Landscape for an Analysis

Generating a Landscape Critique

Downloading a Landscape Critique

Basic Fire Behavior (BFB)

Copying an Existing Basic Fire Behavior Analysis

Analyst_Assisted Short Term Fire Behavior (STFB)

Running a Short-Term Fire Behavior (STFB) Analysis

Copying an Existing Short-Term Fire Behavior Analysis

Near-Term Fire Behavior (NTFB)

Running a Near-Term Fire Behavior Analysis (NTFB)

Setting Up Burn Periods for NTFB

Using Gridded Winds (BFB, STFB)

Modifying Wind Information (BFB, STFB)

Modifying Fuel Moistures for Fire Behavior Analysts

About Weather Station Information (BFB & STFB, NTFB, FSPro)

About FWX Weather Files

Downloading FWX Weather Files (FSPro)

Weather Station Availability for Fire Behavior Analysis

Generating Hourly Weather Forecasts

Viewing and Modifying Weather Summary Data (BFB, STFB & NTFB)

Copying an Existing Near-Term Fire Behavior Analysis

Creating an FSPro Analysis

About General FSPro Input Parameters

FSPro Information Menu Option

About Run FSPro Status

Monitoring FSPro Run Status from the Analysis List

About the Date Filter (FSPro)

Copying an Existing FSPro Analysis

About the ERC Stream (FSPro)

About ERC Classes (FSPro)

Setting up FSPro Winds

Editing the FSPro Wind Matrix

Adding or Deleting Rows to the Winds Matrix (FSPro)

Downloading Winds (FSPro)

Recalculating Winds Distribution (FSPro)

Interpreting the Winds Rose (FSPro)

Downloading an Analysis KMZ File

Near Term Fire Behavior Results Downloads

FSPro Fire Behavior Results Downloads

Viewing Analysis Notes

Viewing Analysis Results

Viewing the Analysis Report

Reference

Field Descriptions

Glossary Resources

Spatial Data Reference

Landscape Data Source Reference

Relative Risk Reference

Organization Assessment Reference

Fire Behavior Reference

About the WFDSS Decision Editors