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What is HFire?
HFire (Highly Optimized Tolerance Fire Spread Model) is a new raster-based
spatially explicit model of surface fire spread through Southern California chaparral written in
the C programming language. Using HFire you can predict the speed and direction of a fire spreading
across the landscape in real-time. HFire can also be used for stochastic multi-year simulations of
fire regime.
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What do I need to know about wildfire?
If you don't know what a wildfire is, then you might want to start
with the Fire Behavior pages to get a general idea of
how fires are started and how it is that they spread when burning out of control. On the
other hand, the Fuels pages are a good place to start
if you already know something about fire and are curious about what makes fires burning through
Southern California's shrublands unique. The Data
and Tools pages contain downloadable products, including spatial data, source code, and
executable utilities, that I developed while working on this project.
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What are custom fuel models and where can I download them?
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Developing custom fuel models is more of an art based on trial and
error comparison between fuel model input parameters and fire spread predictions rather than
science. In other words, direct estimates of fuel properties from ground-based sampling are
used to guide values supplied as inputs to new models, but some "fudging" of these estimates
is still required...
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How were fuels mapped in the Santa Monica Mountains?
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Although there was a lack of ground-based fuels data available for
the Santa Monica Mountains, there exists an abundance of ancillary GIS basedata which could
serve as a surrogate for measuring the variables thought to be important in assessing fuels
development. The first step in developing a spatial fuels dataset was to...
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Where can I find data to use with HFire or FARSITE to predict fire behavior in the Santa Barbara front range?
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Datasets Available for Download: Santa Barbara Front Range.
Download Products By Clicking on Map Image...
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