Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) Projects
2002-present
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The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a Windows®-based computer program that can be used for any fire management application that needs to calculate fire behavior. It uses specified fuel and… moreContact(s): Faith Ann Heinsch
1994-2010
**FARSITE4 is no longer be supported or available for download. FlamMap6 now includes FARSITE.**
See FlamMap for more information.
Contact(s): Charles McHugh, Mark Finney
2006-present
For a quick overview see our FFI: Ecological Monitoring Story Map
FFI is designed to help managers fulfill monitoring requirements set forth in Federal legislation and agency policy. It supports scalable (project to landscape scale) monitoring at… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes
1998-present
FireFamily+ (FF+) is a software package used to calculate fuel moistures and indices from the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) using hourly or daily fire weather observations primarily from Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS).… moreContact(s): Matt Jolly
1999-2006
FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time.
The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes
2009-2020
A fire severity mapping system for real time fire management application and long-term planning.
FIRESEV (FIRE SEVerity Mapping Tools) is a comprehensive set of tools and protocols to deliver, create, and evaluate fire severity maps for all phases… moreContact(s): Greg Dillon
2003-present
FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that ONLY runs in a 64-bit Windows Operating System environment. It can simulate potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.), fire growth and spread and… moreContact(s): Charles McHugh, Mark Finney
1995- present
FOFEM
FOFEM (a First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program for predicting tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and soil heating caused by prescribed fire or wildfire.
First order fire effects are those that concern the… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes
2007-present
Quantitative wildfire risk analysis requires complete geospatial coverage of fire impact probabilities and sizes. Wildfire simulation is the primary means of estimating these, including the frequency distribution of large fire events. FSim simulates… moreContact(s): Karen Short, Mark Finney
2006-present
FuelCalc is a desktop software application for determining changes in surface and crown fuel loading after thinning, pruning, piling and/or prescribed fire.
Ground, surface, and canopy fuel characteristics serve as essential inputs to computer… moreContact(s): Duncan Lutes