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In order to meet preidentified objectives, prescribed burns are lit under specific conditions to produce desirable results such as favorable plant response, healthy forest and rangeland conditions for grazing and wildlife habitat, silvicultural treatments, indigenous cultural practices, and reduced wildfire hazard.

Prescribed fire liability from escaped fire in the United States falls under one of three Standards of Care: strict liability, simple negligence, or gross negligence.

There are many parts of a wildfire and wildland firefighters use specific terminology to describe each part. Fire Facts: What are? Parts of a Wildfire

There are three basic types of forest fires: ground, surface, and crown. Fire Facts: What are? Types of Fire

Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials. Fire Facts: What is? Wildfire Smoke

There are four main parameters used by fire managers to describe fire behavior. Read more at Fire Facts: What are? Measures of Fire Behavior

The relief features or surface configuration of an area. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Topography.

Any material that burns. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fuel.

Fire behavior is the way a fire acts - how and when fuels ignite, flames develop, and fire spreads as influenced by its interaction with fuel, weather, and topography. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fire Behavior.

Weather describes short-term variations in the atmosphere from hot to cold, wet to dry, calm to stormy, clear to cloudy. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Weather.

Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where human development and the natural world meet or intermingle. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? WUI.

Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) is an assessment intended to protect life, property, water quality, important archeological resources, and impacted ecosystems from further damage. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? BAER

A fire is always contained before it is controlled. Read more at, Fire Facts: When is? A Fire Contained, Controlled, and Out

National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMET) provide onsite, tactical weather support for wildland fires and other incidents. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? IMET

A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? CWPP

The Fire Triangle is a simple way of understanding the components of fire. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fire Triangle.

The Incident Command System (ICS) was developed to help agencies (federal, state, and local) manage wildland fires. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Incident Command System.

A Fire Adapted Community acknowledges and takes responsibility for its risk of wildfires and takes appropriate actions at all levels of the community. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? A Fire Adapted Community

A Red Flag Warning is issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) to alert land management agencies about the onset, or possible onset, of critical weather and fuel moisture conditions that could lead to rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Red Flag Warning

The Natural Range of Variation is a description of the conditions of an ecosystem over space and time. Read more at: Fire Facts: What is? Natural Range of Variability