Spread mode

It is the primary Widfire Analyst fire spread simulation mode, providing all the fire behavior outputs such as, time of arrival, ROS, flame length, fireline intensity, suppression capacity, High Definition Wind Field, Critical fire paths and Campbell prediction system.

Adjustment mode

One of the reasons of the low use of real time simulations of fast fires is the time consuming task of ROS adjustment based on observations. In order to overcome this, Wildfire Analyst by obtaining a set of chekpoints where the arrival time of the fire is known, it will find the best ROS adjustment factors such that the final simulation result best fits to the real fire conditions. The new adjusted results are available in seconds and are saved in order to allow the user to use them as an input in further simulations.

Entering checkpoints to adjust the simulation Rate of Spread

Result of the same simulation when considering the previous entered checkpoint

Adjustment calculator

Furthermore, WFA includes an adjustment calculator that allows the user to view and edit the saved simulations adjustments factors related to Rate of Spread, Wind or fuels.

Evacuation time mode

The evacuation time mode changes the traditional approach on concerning about "what will the fire do?" to get real answers to "How much time will I have when a fire occurs under these conditions?". Incident commanders when managing a fire mostly concern about how to be able to defend vulnerable areas or assets rather then knowing only the probable spreading of the fire. Wildfire Analyst by providing the dynamic time of arrival of the fire to these assets gets a large advantage over currently existing planning tools.

8h evacuation time region around a vulnerable asset, representing the time that the fire will take to reach it.

Probabilistic mode

The Wildfire Response probabilistic mode allows the user to run a set of "n" simulations with varying weather conditions in order to obtain the fire presence probabilistic analysis. Different simulations are automatically carried out and WFA analyzes how many times each cell has "burned" during the simulations in order to provide the probabilistic output.

Probabilistic mode representing the most probable burning areas of a region.

Reverse time mode

Wildfire Analyst™ reverse mode reconstructs a wildfire from an existing fire perimeter, presenting a probable fire ignition area. By using meteorological records of the time and place where the wildfire occured, Wildfire Analyst™ provides an estimation of the probable ignition points.

WFA reverse time mode presenting the area where the ignition points are most probable (fire arrival time conversion areas)