Fuels and fire in land-management planning: part 3. costs and losses for management options. Forest service general technical report

An approach is illustrated for computing expected costs of fire protection; fuel treatment; fire suppression; damage values; and percent of area lost to wildfire for a management or rotation cycle. Input is derived from a method for collecting and classifying the total fuel complex, and a method for appraising and rating probable fire behavior. This approach can be used locally for fire management and in land management planning.