Whether you’re assessing holding resources for a prescribed fire or seeing how critical holding points shift with wind direction to pick the best burn conditions, skip the non-spatial BEHAVE predictions. We can help you visualize your prescribed fire well before the GO/NO GO decision.
In the past, Prescribed Fire Burn Bosses ran BEHAVE at the command prompt to model fire behavior. BEHAVE still exists today in a GUI form. It produces wide-ranging, non-spatial fire behavior estimates and is mostly a box-checking exercise. Spatially explicit models, like ours, have existed for years but are harder to run and less common. They use the same factors as wildfire risk analyses and let us simulate potential prescriptions. These models help compare prescriptions, plan holding resources, and flag critical holding points where fuel pretreatment, extra resources, or adjusted ignition patterns may be needed. No model is perfect, but visualizing fire behavior across a landscape under different prescriptions beats vague ranges like “flame length 1.7–12.8 feet” or “rate of spread 3.7–29.4 feet per minute.” Let us help modernize your fire behavior modeling.
