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Table 4 Fuel consumption data for the Tripod Fire Complex based on seven different vegetation maps. Fuels are aggregated into total fuels, canopy fuels, total surface fuels, shrub, grass, total woody, sound woody, rotten woody, litter, and duff.

From: Intercomparison of Fire Size, Fuel Loading, Fuel Consumption, and Smoke Emissions Estimates on the 2006 Tripod Fire, Washington, USA

 

NFDRS (1 km)

Hardy98 (1 km)

FCCS1 (1 km)

FCCS2 (1 km)

FCCS2 (30 m)

LANDFIRE FLM (30 m)

Ok Wen (25 m)

Number of pixels

765.0

765.0

738.0

758.0

787 080.0

787 080.0

1 539 935.0

Hectares

70 483.0

70 483.0

71 100.0

71 350.0

70 837.0

70 837.0

64 994.0

Fuel loading (Mg)

2 718 590.0

4 931 377.0

6 315 591.0

8 792 675.0

7 875 389.0

3 017 456.0

8 367 184.0

Fuel loading (Mg ha−1)

38.6

69.9

88.8

123.3

111.2

42.6

128.7

Fuel consumption

Fire effects model

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Consume

FOFEM

Total (Mg)

2 446 474

2 103 904

4 254 480

3 014 607

4 328 785

3 182 544

5 774 189

4 504 178

5 139 838

4 084 608

2 132 086

1 796 054

5 585 824

4 397 196

Total (Mg ha−1)

34.7

29.8

60.3

42.8

61.0

44.8

80.9

63.2

72.6

57.6

30.0

25.3

85.9

67.7

Canopy (Mg)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

583 315

543 777

893 892

1 016 930

788 084

913 730

242 698

227 416

787 977

1 043 364

Canopy (Mg ha−1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

8.3

7.6

12.6

14.3

11.2

13.0

3.4

3.1

12.1

16.1

Total surface (Mg)

2 446 474

2 103 904

4 254 480

3 014 607

3 745 470

2 638 765

4 880 297

3 487 248

4 351 754

3 170 878

1 889 386

1 568 639

4 797 846

3 353 831

Total surface (Mg ha−1)

34.7

29.8

60.3

42.8

52.7

37.2

68.4

48.9

61.4

44.8

26.7

22.2

73.8

51.6

Shrub (Mg ha−1)

1.1

0.7

1.1

0.7

0.2

0.2

0.7

0.4

0.7

0.4

0.7

0.4

1.3

0.9

Grass (Mg ha−1)

1.1

1.1

1.1

1.1

0.7

0.7

0.7

0.9

0.9

0.9

0.7

0.7

0.2

0.2

Total woody (Mg ha−1)

32.5

27.8

29.6

27.3

28.0

20.2

32.1

26.5

29.1

24.4

14.6

12.1

40.6

32.7

Sound woody (Mg ha−1)

32.5

26.5

29.6

25.1

21.7

15.9

18.6

14.8

16.8

13.5

8.7

7.2

30.3

23.3

Rotten woody (Mg ha−1)

0.0

1.6

0.0

2.2

5.8

4.3

12.8

11.7

11.4

10.8

5.8

4.7

10.1

9.4

Litter (Mg ha−1)

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

2.2

3.8

2.5

4.0

2.2

3.8

3.6

2.9

2.7

3.8

Duff (Mg ha−1)

0.0

0.0

28.5

6.0

21.5

12.6

32.3

17.3

28.5

15.2

7.2

6.3

28.9

13.7