Using HFire for Spatial Modeling of Fire in Shrublands

An efficient raster fire-spread model named HFire is introduced. HFire can simulate single-fire events or long-term fire regimes, using the same fire-spread algorithm. This paper describes the HFire algorithm, benchmarks the model using a standard set of tests developed for FARSITE, and compares historical and predicted fire spread perimeters for three southern California fires. HFire is available for download at http://firecenter.berkeley.edu/hfire.

[1]  David G. Green,et al.  Interactive simulation of bushfires in heterogeneous fuels , 1990 .

[2]  S. Tarantola,et al.  Sensitivity Analysis of a Fire Spread Model in a Chaparral Landscape , 2008 .

[3]  S. Peterson,et al.  SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE 2003 SIMI WILDFIRE EVENT , 2003 .

[4]  Keeley,et al.  Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes , 1999, Science.

[5]  Kerry Anderson,et al.  Fire-growth modelling using meteorological data with random and systematic perturbations , 2007 .

[6]  Howard P. Hanson,et al.  The potential and promise of physics-based wildfire simulation , 2000 .

[7]  F. H. Harlow,et al.  FIRETEC: A transport description of wildfire behavior , 1997 .

[8]  R. Rothermel,et al.  How to Predict the Spread and Intensity of Forest and Range Fires , 2017 .

[9]  李幼升,et al.  Ph , 1989 .

[10]  R. Rothermel.  A Mathematical Model for Predicting Fire Spread in Wildland Fuels , 2017 .

[11]  R. Burgan,et al.  BEHAVE : Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System -- FUEL Subsystem , 1984 .

[12]  F. A. Williams,et al.  Mechanisms of fire spread , 1977 .

[13]  Marco E. Morais,et al.  Wildfires, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance. , 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[14]  R. Rothermel,et al.  Modeling moisture content of fine dead wildland fuels input into the BEHAVE fire prediction system , 1986 .

[15]  R.A.S. Ratchliffe,et al.  Book reviewBoundary-layer meteorology: A new quarterly journal of physical and biological processes in the atmospheric boundary layer. R. E. Munn (Editor). D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1969, Volume 1(1). , 1971 .

[16]  H. Anderson,et al.  Predicting wind-driven wild land fire size and shape / , 1983 .

[17]  John W. Hearne,et al.  An improved cellular automaton model for simulating fire in a spatially heterogeneous Savanna system , 2002 .

[18]  R. Weber,et al.  Modelling fire spread through fuel beds , 1991 .

[19]  William M. Pitts,et al.  Wind effects on fires , 1991 .

[20]  K. Clarke,et al.  A Cellular Automaton Model of Wildfire Propagation and Extinction , 1994 .

[21]  D. G. Green.  Shapes of simulated fires in discrete fuels , 1983 .

[22]  Range Experiment Station,et al.  Fire Behavior in Nonuniform Fuels , 2018 .

[23]  D. H. Anderson,et al.  Graphical simulation of bushfire spread , 1990 .

[24]  William A. Dean,et al.  Measuring Moisture Content in Living Chaparral: A Field User's Manual , 2017 .

[25]  Bernard P. Zeigler,et al.  Forest Fire Spread and Suppression in DEVS , 2004, Simul..

[26]  Scott L. Stephens,et al.  Fire and sustainability: considerations for California’s altered future climate , 2008 .

[27]  John R. Coleman,et al.  A real-time computer application for the prediction of fire spread across the Australian landscape , 1996, Simul..

[28]  F. Albini.  Estimating Wildfire Behavior and Effects , 1976 .

[29]  Jon E. Keeley,et al.  Testing a basic assumption of shrubland fire management: how important is fuel age? , 2004 .

[30]  Jan Baeyens,et al.  Progress in Energy and Combustion Science , 2015 .

[31]  D. Roberts,et al.  Use of Normalized Difference Water Index for monitoring live fuel moisture , 2005 .

[32]  Gl Ball,et al.  Improved Fire Growth Modeling , 1992 .

[33]  M. Finney.  FARSITE : Fire Area Simulator : model development and evaluation , 1998 .

[34]  E. J. S.,et al.  Quantitative Plant Ecology , 1934, Nature.

[35]  W. Fons,et al.  Analysis of Fire Spread in Light Forest Fuels , 1946 .

[36]  Neville de Mestre,et al.  Physical models for a spreading line fire , 1986 .

[37]  Judith Winterkamp,et al.  Studying wildfire behavior using FIRETEC , 2002 .

[38]  Dar A. Roberts,et al.  Mapping live fuel moisture with MODIS data: A multiple regression approach , 2008 .

[39]  M. Vasconcelos,et al.  Firemap - Simulation of fire growth with a geographic information system , 1992 .

[40]  W. Hargrove,et al.  Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes , 2000 .

[41]  Dar A. Roberts,et al.  Modeling seasonal changes in live fuel moisture and equivalent water thickness using a cumulative water balance index , 2003 .

[42]  G. Richards.  An elliptical growth model of forest fire fronts and its numerical solution , 1990 .

[43]  P. H. Kourtz,et al.  A Model a Small Forest Fire ... to Simulate Burned and Burning Areas for Use in a Detection Model , 1971 .

[44]  P. Andrews.  BEHAVE : Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System - BURN Subsystem, Part 1 , 1986 .

[45]  M. Finney.  Fire growth using minimum travel time methods , 2002 .

[46]  Tom Beer,et al.  The interaction of wind and fire , 1991 .

[47]  Mark A. Finney,et al.  WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support , 2006 .

[48]  Ian Owens,et al.  A GIS-supported model for the simulation of the spatial structure of wildland fire, Cass Basin, New Zealand , 1999 .

[49]  K. Richards,et al.  Environmental Science and Policy , 2015 .

[50]  F. A. Albini,et al.  Fire Containment Equations for Pocket Calculators , 2017 .

[51]  Carl W. Adkins,et al.  A dimensionless correlation for the spread of wind-driven fires , 1988 .

[52]  E. A. Catchpole,et al.  Modelling the spread of grass fires , 1982, The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. Series B. Applied Mathematics.

[53]  Suzana Dragicevic,et al.  Design and implementation of an integrated GIS-based cellular automata model to characterize forest fire behaviour , 2008 .

[54]  Marco Morais.  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Comparing Spatially Explicit Models of Fire Spread Through Chaparral Fuels : A New Algorithm Based Upon the Rothermel Fire Spread Equation , 2001 .

[55]  M. Finney.  An Overview of FlamMap Fire Modeling Capabilities , 2006 .

[56]  M. Finney.  Design of Regular Landscape Fuel Treatment Patterns for Modifying Fire Growth and Behavior , 2001, Forest Science.