Executive summary This project undertook a survey of the fire behaviour knowledge
currently used by operational fire behaviour analysts (FBANs) in Australia and New Zealand …

Accurate prediction of bushfire behaviour is essential for effective fire management. Such
knowledge allows for the timely determination of the potential threat and impacts of a fire …

Wildland fire managers must frequently make meaning from chaos in order to protect
communifies and infrastructure from the negafive impacts of fire. Fire management …

Bushfire research in New Zealand is focussed on developing a national fire danger rating
system and fire behaviour prediction models. The approach has been to adapt the Canadian …

Fire behaviour and spread predictions guides suppression strategies and public warnings
during wildfires. The scientific understanding of fire behaviour forms the core of these …

Internationally, fire and land management agencies are increasingly using forms of
predictive services to inform wildfire planning and operational response. This trend is …

This report into the investigation of behaviour of the fires of 7th February 2009 is based on
the best available information at the time of writing and is subject to change if new evidence …

Background: Fire danger rating systems are used daily across Australia to support fire
management operations and communications to the general public regarding potential fire …

Australia needs to develop and use sophisticated fire modeling techniques as an aid in the
prevention and mitigation of bushfires (COAG 2002). This was reinforced by the …

The knowledge of a free-burning fire's potential rate of spread is critical for safe and effective
bushfire control and use. A number of models for predicting the head-fire rate of spread in …