Estimating Fire Behavior With Firecast: User'S Manual.

estimating fire behavior with firecast: user's manual.

I first worked on FIRECAST at the Intermountain Station's Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Montana, in 1978, when there was initial user interest in a national fire behavior program. This original FIRECAST fire behavior program was an expanded version of the southern California FIREMOD com­ puter program.* Despite major improvements to the FIRECAST program and encouraging test operation, official development of the program was stopped in 1979 as a result of funding problems. Dick Harrell of the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (R-5) eventually revived FIRECAST.