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Wildfire and Smoke 2008
Federal Wildland Fire Policy Implementation Field Test
Wildfire Decision Support Development
Addressing Wildfire Smoke
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Federal Wildland Fire
Policy
2003 Interagency Strategy
for the Implement
ation of Federal Wildland
Fire Policy
2009 Guidance
for Implement
ation of Federal Wildland
Fire Policy
2008 Field Pilots to
Develop and Test the Modified
Implementation
Guidance
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Wildfire(Objective: PROTECTION “to put the fire out” & Minimize Loss)
Wildland Fire Use(Objective: BENEFICIAL “to accomplish specific resource management
objectives”)
Appropriate Management Response Strategic Spectrum
Direct Attack Containment Confinement Monitoring
“Tactical Alternatives”
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Wildfire Strategic Objectives(Objective: PROTECTION “to put the fire out” & Minimize Loss)
(Objective: BENEFICIAL “to accomplish specific resource management objectives”)
Appropriate Management Response Strategic Spectrum
Direct Attack Containment Confinement Monitoring
“Tactical Alternatives”
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Pilot Units• Northwest Geographic Area
– Wallowa-Whitman National Forest– Olympic National Park
• Northern Rockies Geographic Area– Bitterroot National Forest & Lolo
National Forest– Yellowstone National Park– Flathead Agency*WFDSS Test Unit
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Pilot Units• Northern California Geographic Area
– Klamath National Forest
• Southern California Geographic Area– Sequoia National Forest– Sierra National Forest1 (Tehipite Fire)– Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
• Eastern Great Basin Geographic Area– Payette National Forest– Grand Teton National Park and John D.
Rockefeller Memorial Parkway*WFDSS Test Unit1 Granted “Pilot” status for a single fire
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Pilot Units• Rocky Mountain
– Upper Colorado Rive Fire Management Zone
• White River National Forest & Grand Valley District of the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison National Forest
• Grand Junction Field Office, Glenwood Field Office, & Northwest Colorado Fire Management Area (Craig)
• Brown’s Park National Wildlife Refuge• Colorado National Monument and Dinosaur
National Monument*WFDSS Test Unit
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Pilot Units• Alaska
– Tanana Fire Management Zone• BLM, NPS, FWS, BIA and State of Alaska
• Southwest Geographic Area– Gila National Forest & Kaibab National
Forest– Gila Cliff Dwelling National Monument– Grand Canyon National Park
• Southern Geographic Area– Great Smoky Mountains National Park
* WFDSS Test Unit
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Wildland Fire Decision Support System
WFIP
WFSA
Decision Support
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Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS)
A system intended to assist fire managers and analysts in determining the appropriate management response (AMR) for fire incidents.
It is designed to replace the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis) and other incident planning processes with an easier more intuitive online product.
Introduces economic principles into the fire decision process including assessment of values at risk
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WFDSS – RAVAR• Rapid Assessment of Values-at-Risk (RAVAR)• Improved strategic risk assessment tool• Risk = Threat * Value Change• Provides spatially explicit values at risk data linked
to fire threat projections – FSPro (Fire Spread Probability) or other fire behavior
models– User defined polygons
• Value is identified in RAVAR – need more research to get value change
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/wfdss_ravar/
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Components of RAVAR• FS Pro or other fire
behavior models or user defined polygons
• Private Structures• Housing Values• Infrastructure
– including power transmission, pipelines, communication towers, water supply infrastructure
• Air Quality Information
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How to incorporate smoke in decision making?
Smoke models are not yet available or ready to incorporate in WFDSS
Need a way to report possible air quality issues and smoke dispersion potential to the wildland fire community and others
Air quality assessments added to RAVAR must take less than 30 minutes to complete to allow for efficient and rapid turn-around
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The air quality components added to RAVAR
Nonattainment GIS data layers– PM 2.5 Nonattainment areas– Ozone Nonattainment areas– PM 2.5 Proposed Areas
Ozone and PM monitoring stations Communities over 50,000 population* FS Pro Models buffered out 100 miles Wind Rose from surface weather
stations
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Product Example
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Future Development
• Communities at risk from drainage smoke• Improved potential smoke plume polygon
based on climate data• Mixing layer Wind Rose for duration of
FSPro simulation• Location of Base Camp and Aviation
Operations
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2008 Smoke Approaches
Single Incident –North Carolina
Multiple Incidents –Southern California October 2007–Northern California Summer 2008
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North CarolinaEvans Road Fire
Traffic Safety Issues
Public Health and Safety Issues NCDAQ Policy is no monitoring of wildfires Monitors deployed by fire managers
Fire Fighter Exposure Three Foot Deep Smoldering Organic Soils
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ManteoColumbia
FairfieldBelhaven
Readings for 6/21/08 from 0000 to 0900 hrs. It is very unfortunate data collection did not take place until 2 weeks into the incident.
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At the request of the FBAN NWS continuously runs Hysplit to review modeled smoke trajectory fire in order to fine tune NOAA Radio Broadcast and Hazard Statements.
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Clockwise Moving Transition Zone
Simple Smoke Vectors (extend 30 miles) depict major smoke corridors using NWS Wind Direction Forecast for Evans Rd. Fire from6/10/08 (3 hrs past sunset) to 6/11/08 (4 hrs past sunrise)
Corroborates BlueSky model projection
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Max 1 hr PM 2.5 concentration for 6/11/08 from 0000 hrs to 2400 hrs. Each Square is ~ 7 sq mi
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