Wikifire
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A
- Absolute humidity
- Accident investigation
- Advection
- Aerial attack
- Aerial fuels
- Aerial ignition device
- Aerial operations
- Aerial resources
- Afforestation
- Air Traffic Control (ATC)
- All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV)
- Anemometer
- Angle of char indicators
- Area ignition
- Area of origin
- Arson
- Artificial regeneration
- Assisting Participating State
- Atmospheric inversion
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric saturation
- Atmospheric stability
- Available fuels
B
C
- Canopy
- Canopy base height
- Catchment area
- Cause of fire
- Centre burn
- Chain of command
- Chainsaw
- Char
- Char height
- Civil protection (CP) module
- Clean burn
- Clearance of channels and valleys
- Coarse fuels
- Combustibility
- Combustion
- Combustion efficiency
- Combustion rate
- Communication tower
- Compactness
- Condensation
- Conduction
- Containment
- Contingency Plan
- Control centre
- Control line
- Control points
- Controlled Fire
- Convection
- Convection column
- Convection-driven fire
- Conversion burning
- Cool fire
- Coppicing
- Counter burn
- Creeping fire
- Crew
- Critical mass flow rate
- Critical rate of spread
- Critical rate of spread
- Critical Surface Intensity
- Crown
- Crown Fire/Crowning
- Crown scorch
- Curing
D
E
F
- Fine fuel moisture
- Fine Fuels
- Fire analysis
- Fire behaviour
- Fire build up
- Fire damage
- Fire danger
- Fire danger index
- Fire dependent ecosystem
- Fire ecology
- Fire effects
- Fire fighter
- Fire fighting chemicals
- Fire footprint
- Fire front
- Fire history
- Fire intensity
- Fire Management Plan
- Fire patterns
- Fire perimeter
- Fire Plan
- Fire prediction system
- Fire Prevention
- Fire regime
- Fire sensitive ecosystem
- Fire severity
- Fire shelter
- Fire spread
- Fire storm
- Fire Suppression Plan
- Fire Traffic Area (FTA)
- Fire triangle
- Fire types
- Fire whirl
- Fire whirl
- Fire-smart management
- Firebreak
- Firefighting Traffic Capacity (FTC)
- First responders
- Flame angle
- Flame depth
- Flame height
- Flame length
- Flaming combustion
- Flaming front
- Flaming zone
- Flammability
- Flank attack
- Flank fire
- Flanks
- Flare up
- Flash fuels
- Flashing
- Foliar moisture content
- Forces of alignment
- Forest
- Forest Fire
- Fuel
- Fuel accumulation
- Fuel arrangement
- Fuel assessment
- Fuel availability
- Fuel bed
- Fuel build up
- Fuel condition
- Fuel consumption
- Fuel hazard
- Fuel layers
- Fuel load
- Fuel management
- Fuel management fire
- Fuel moisture content
- Fuel treatment
- Fuel-driven fire
- Fuelbreak
G
H
I
L
M
P
R
S
- Safe area
- Safety
- Scar
- Scene Investigation
- Scientific method
- Scrubland
- Sea breeze
- Sector
- Sector Commander
- Seed
- Serotinous seed container
- Serotinous seed container
- Short-term retardants
- Silviculture
- Silviculture
- Sleeper fire
- Slope effect
- Slope wind
- Slope-driven fire
- Smoke
- Smouldering combustion
- Smouldering fire
- Soil compaction
- Spider excavator
- Spot Fire
- Spotting
- Stand
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Stump
- Sub-soiling
- Succession
- Supply area
- Suppression
- Suppression fire
- Surface fire
- Surface fuel
- Swamp
- System operator