Category - Suppression Skills

S490 - Advanced Fire Behav Calculations

Reviewed: 1993 Hours: 40

Course Description:

This course is the fourth in a series designed to develop fire behavior and prediction knowledge and skills. This course prepares the student for S-590, Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation. Examples and exercises are divided between wildfire and prescribed fire applications. The student learns to project fire perimeter growth based on weather predictions and knowledge of fuels and topography, using a variety of scenarios.

Objectives:

Demonstrate the assumptions, limitations, and appropriate uses of fire behavior prediction models.
Demonstrate computation of wildland fire behavior parameters using advanced techniques to define model inputs and compute outputs.
Demonstrate the procedures to predict fire growth and extreme fire behavior in complex terrain.
Demonstrate ability to predict when wildland fire behavior in the third dimension is likely, and the associated impacts on firefighter safety and operations.

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as a fire behavior analyst (FBAN), long term fire analyst (LTAN), or other fire or fire use personnel who would benefit from this course.

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified fire behavior analysts (FBAN), or long term fire analysts (LTAN), or prescribed fire burn boss type 1s (RXB1).

Also see NWCG Instructor Qualifications at the beginning of the Field Managers Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior Calculations (S-390).

Proficient with automated fire behavior calculation programs such as BEHAVE.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 9-25-2008.

Related Downloads:

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study_material_part_1.pdf	11-10-2008
study_material_part_2.pdf	11-10-2008
study_material_part_3.pdf	11-10-2008
study_material_part_4.pdf	11-10-2008
study_material_part_5.pdf	11-10-2008
S490 1992 Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide with some 2007 edits	11-7-2008
aids_to_determining_fuel_models.pdf	11-7-2008
assessing_crown_fire_potential.pdf	11-7-2008
basic_land_navigation.pdf	11-7-2008
basic_land_navigation_corrections.pdf	11-7-2008
comparison_of_crown_fire_modeling.pdf	11-7-2008
fire_behavior_nomograms.pdf	11-7-2008
fire_ellipse_paper.pdf	11-7-2008
fire_weather_handbook.pdf	11-7-2008
firefighter_safety_zones.pdf	11-7-2008
fireline_handbook_appendix_b.pdf	11-7-2008
how_to_predict_spread_and_intensity_of_forest_and_range_fires.pdf	11-7-2008
interagency_fire_use_module.pdf	11-7-2008
inventorying_downed_woody_material.pdf	11-7-2008
predicting_behavior_and_size_of_crown_fires.pdf	11-7-2008
predicting_crown_fire_behavior.pdf	11-7-2008
standard_fire_behavior_fuel_models.pdf	11-7-2008
stereo_photo_guide_for_canopy_characteristics.pdf	11-7-2008
behaveplus_file_organization.ppt	11-7-2008
canopy_fuel_profiles.ppt	11-7-2008
additional_websites.doc	11-7-2008