Severe Fire Danger Index: A Forecastable Metric to Inform Firefighter and Community Wildfire Risk Management

Submitted by hcasesc2 on Fri, 09/06/2019 - 11:00
Type: 
Literature
Publication: 
Jolly, W.M.; Freeborn, P.H.; Page, W.G.; Butler, B.W. Severe Fire Danger Index: A Forecastable Metric to Inform Firefighter and Community Wildfire Risk Management. Fire 2019, 2, 47.
Year Published: 
2019
Organization: 
USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station
Description: 

Researchers from the USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory have developed an early-warning system, called the Severe Fire Danger Index (SFDI), which could anticipate the conditions that promote large, high intensity fires with the goal of providing advanced notice to fire-prone communities and preventing wildland firefighter entrapments and fatalities.

Category: 
fire danger, firefighter safety, community fire risk, forecast, sever fire danger index
Website: 
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/3/47#cite