Abstract Background Model simulations of wildfire spread and assessments their accuracy are needed for understanding managing altered fire regimes in semiarid regions. The can be evaluated from post hoc comparisons simulated actual perimeters, but this requires information on pre-fire vegetation fuels that is typically not available. We assessed the Fire-Area Simulator (FARSITE) model parameter...

Recent major wildfires may result from a combination of climate change and fuel buildup due to fire exclusion policies of the last century. Are such fires unique to the forests and climate of the 21st century or are they similar to historic fires? Historic fires are recorded primarily by eye witness accounts which seldom contain information needed to examine them with modern fire management too...

A fire growth model (FARSITE) has been developed for use on personal computers (PC’s). Because PC’s are commonly used by land and fire managers, this portable platform would be an accustomed means to bring fire growth modeling technology to management applications. The FARSITE model is intended for use in projecting the growth of prescribed natural fires for wilderness areas. The PC model requi...

Technologies now exist to simulate and observe fire spread at spatial resolutions on the order of 30 meters. The FARSITE modeling system recently introduced to the US fire management community provides twodimensional fire spread simulations from a laptop computer, given topography, fuels, and weather information. The quality of the fire spread simulations is subject to examination. This paper d...

The Farsite distributed le system stores multiple replicas of les on multiple machines, to provide le access even when some machines are unavailable. Farsite assigns le replicas to machines so as to maximally exploit the di erent degrees of availability of di erent machines, given an allowable replication factor R. We use competitive analysis and simulation to study the performance of three can...