Title:

Fire Behavior Assessment Team: in-fire videos from 2020 to 2023

Author(s):

Dickinson, Matthew B.; Ewell, Carol M.; Dailey, Scott N.; Pasquale, Richard; Birch, Joseph D.; Hanan, Erin J.; Knapp, Eric E.; Miesel, Jessica R.

Publication Year:

2024

How to Cite:

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Dickinson, Matthew. B.; Ewell, Carol M.; Dailey, Scott N.; Pasquale, Richard; Birch Joseph D.; Hanan, Erin J.; Knapp, Eric E.; Miesel, Jessica R. 2024. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: in-fire videos from 2020 to 2023. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0032

Abstract:

This data publication contains in-fire video collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) on a subset of wildland fires in the United States from 2021-2023. FBAT is an interagency group of primarily Forest Service employees with both monitoring and fireline qualifications which collects pre- and post-fire fuels and tree data along with fire behavior measurements on wildland fires. Logistics, funding, fire activity, and monitoring objectives influence the geographic regions and fires where sampling is conducted. Reports from each fire are included as supplemental files wherein the plot layout, including camera positioning, is described. This publication includes a mix of video segments that, collectively, encompass all the video collected at each plot and short videos (clips, ranging from 20 seconds in length to minutes in length) created from those segments. These video clips highlight the variation in fire behavior observed at each plot. In-fire videos are provided for three fires in Oregon and California: the 2020 Red Salmon Complex Fire, the 2021 River Complex (Summer Fire), and the 2023 Lookout Fire. Also included are videos from plots on the Six Rivers National Forest Lightning Complex (SRFLC), Mosquito Fire in 2023 on which Terrestrial Laser Scanning, but no other FBAT measurements, was done pre- and post-fire.

Keywords:

environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Fire; Fire ecology; Fire effects on environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Natural Resource Management & Use; Forest management; videos; images; wildland fire; wildfire; fire behavior; spread rate; flame length; fire progression; California; Oregon

Related publications:

• Birch Joseph D.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Reiner, Alicia L.; Knapp, Eric E.; Dailey, Scott N.; Ewell, Carol M.; Lutz, James A.; Miesel, Jessica R. 2023. Heading and backing fire behaviours mediate the influence of fuels on wildfire energy. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32: 1244-1261. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22010 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/66545
• Reiner, Alicia L.; Ewell, Carol M.; Fites-Kaufman, Josephine A.; Dailey, Scott N.; Noonan-Wright, Erin K.; Norman, Tiffany P.; Vaillant, Nicole M.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Morgan, Chelsea; Courson, Mark; Campbell, Mike. 2021. Fire Behavior Assessment Team: in-fire videos. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 17 April 2024. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0069

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