FIRE WEATHER ASSESSMENT TOOLS
The following web pages and sites provide a variety of products and tools that allow you to assess the fire weather conditions for your area. Some of the tools include both Drought and Haines indices, as well as National Fire Weather Outlooks. You will also find a comprensive glossary of fire weather terms.
SOUTHWEST AREA FIRE WEATHER AOP 2008
This document serves as the Interagency Fire Weather Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for the
Southwest Geographic Area. The general relationship between NWS and the interagency fire
management community is set forth in the National Interagency Agreement for Meteorological
Services. The AOP provides specific procedural and policy information regarding the delivery of
meteorological services to the fire management community in the Southwest Area, as allowed under
the umbrella of the National Agreement. NOTE: This document is in .PDF format and is approximately 1.22mb in size.
CALIFORNIA AOP - 2008
PHOENIX ANNUAL FIRE WEATHER REPORT - 2007
This document provides a brief summary of the fire weather season, including seasonal weather highlights, verification statistics on Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches, IMET deployments, and other training and outreach activities. This document is in PDF format.
FREE ADOBE PDF READER DOWNLOADS
To download FREE PDF reader software, you may click on the following links: Census.gov and Adobe.com.
NATIONAL FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOKS
NATIONAL SOIL / WILDFIRE CONDITIONS - CPC
DROUGHT INDICES
HAINES INDICES
FIRE WEATHER GLOSSARY
This comprehensive glossary defines a wide variety of wildland fire weather terms, such as control line, defensible space, dry lightning, fire behavior specialist and hotshot crew. Check it out!
WILDLAND FIRE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
FIRE DANGER
FUEL MOISTURE
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