- Fire intensity – energy release, links to wildfires
- Burn severity – impacts on ecology/ecosystem services
- The types of fire behaviour that represent intense and/or severe fires
- The main factors that affect fire behaviour: wind, slope, aspect, fuels (especially fuel moisture)
- Three main reasons why wildfires occur:
- Fire behaviour exceeds expectations.
- Control resources are inadequate for the expected fire behaviour.
- Control lines (firebreaks) are inadequate for the expected fire behaviour.
- Threshold of control for main suppression methods
- Fire return interval / rotation length
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