Fuel Characteristic Classification System Version 3.0: Technical Documentation

The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (Joint Fire Science Program 2012). It can also be run from command line as a stand-alone calculator. The flexible design of FCCS allows users to represent the structural complexity and diversity of fuels created through natural processes (e.g., forest succession and disturbance) and management activities (e.g., forest harvesting and fuels reduction). Each fuelbed is organized into six strata, including canopy, shrubs, herbaceous vegetation, woody fuels, litter-lichen-moss, and ground fuels. Strata are further divided into categories and subcategories.

Author: United States Department of Agriculture

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jun 26, 2015

Number of Pages: 90 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1508692521

ISBN-13: 9781508692522