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Fire Ecology
Fig. 2 | Fire Ecology

Fig. 2

From: Modeling of fire spread in sagebrush steppe using FARSITE: an approach to improving input data and simulation accuracy

Fig. 2

Maps showing A Anderson’s 13 fire behavior fuel models (FBFMs) mapped by LANDFIRE, B Scott and Burgan’s 40 FBFMs mapped by LANDFIRE, C agreement between FARSITE simulated fire spread and the observed area burned in the 2015 Soda fire using Anderson’s 13 FBFMs as input (mapped in panel A), and D agreement between FARSITE simulated fire spread and the observed burned area in the 2015 Soda fire using Scott and Burgan’s 40 FBFMs as input (mapped in panel B). Dominant FBFMs for the study area, as mapped by LANDFIRE’s Anderson’s 13 FBFMs and Scott and Burgan’s 40 FBFMs, accounted for 96% and 86% of the burned area, respectively, and are colored orange, blue, and green in panels A and B. Other mapped FBFMs are shown in gray scale and account for the remainder of the landscape. The sum of the blue- and green-colored polygons in panels C and D is the actual observed burn area, and the sum of green and red polygons is the area burned in FARSITE simulations

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