TRAINING Firefighter Topics Nozzle Applications Classification of Fuels Overview

An article about the classification of fuels. It explains the four different fire classifications.

6-page PEDF document about the development of more sophisticated fire models and the implementation of large landscape assessments. It has demonstrated the need for comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural complexity and geographical diversity of fuelbeds.

An article about the classifications of fuel. This article provides five topics such as: The challenges of classifying fuels for fire management; The Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS); Fuel Loading Models: A surface fuel classification for estimating fire effects; Fuel Classification in Canada: meeting the requirements of next generation models for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System; Fuel Models for Fire Behavior and Fire Danger Rating in the U.S.