The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System: Functionality for Fuels Treatment Planning

Fire Ecology

Table 2 Standard prescribed burn plan elements and the tools available in IFTDSS to help complete each element. ○ = facilitates in decision making; ● = outputs needed for burn plan; m = element information is manually entered in burn plan template or completed on day of burn.

	Data and mapping tools			Historic weather	Ignition		Containment				Effects				Behavior
	Manually entered prescribed burn elements	LANDFIRE data (fuel model & topography)	Data Studio (project area of interest maps)	Fire weather statistics^f	Probability of ignition from lightning^a	Probability of ignition from a firebrand^a	Fire size and spread^a	Safety zone size^a	Containment resources^a	Spotting distance^a	Natural fuels consumption	Crown scorch height^a	Tree mortality^d	Consumption and emissions^d	Fire behavior across a landscape^c	Fire behavior for individual stands^c	Crown fire behavior^a	Surface fire behavior for FCCS fuelbeds^b	Surface fire behavior^a
1: Signature page	m
2: Agency go, no-go checklist	m
3: Complexity analysis summary					○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
4: Description of prescribed fire area		●	●												●
5: Objectives											○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
6: Funding
7: Prescription				●		●				●	○	●	○	○	●	●	○	●	●
8: Scheduling	m
9: Pre-burn consideration, weather				○
10: Briefing checklist	m
11: Organization & equipment	m
12: Communication	m
13: Public, personnel safety, medical	m
14: Test fire	m
15: Ignition plan	m																		○
16: Holding plan			○			○	○		○	○					○	○	○	○	○
17: Contingency plan				○		○	○	○	○	○		○		○	○	○	○	○	○
18: Wildfire conversion	m
19: Smoke management				○							●			●
20: Monitoring	m
21: Post-burn activities	m
Appendix A maps (vicinity, project)	●	●													●