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Fire Research » Fire Environment » CFFDRS

Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

Posters

These posters, which are no longer in print, are available for download as PDF files:

Fire Behavior in Three Jack Pine Fuel Complexes (1720 KB)

    Pictures of fire behavior and detailed weather and fuel moisture descriptions and comparisons for fires in jack pine slash and mature and immature jack pine.

Fire Behavior in Jack Pine Stands as Related to the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System (1600 KB)

    Pictures of fires burning in jack pine, with detailed descriptions of weather and fuel moisture conditions.

Examples of Fuel Types in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System (2590 KB)

    Pictures of each fuel type and a brief description. These pictures, along with more detailed descriptions of fuel types, appear on the FBP Fuel Types page.

Predicting Fire Behavior in Spruce–Lichen Woodland Fuel Type of Western and Northern Canada (1323 KB)

    Pictures of fire behavior and detailed weather and fuel moisture descriptions of fires in black spruce woodland.

PDF files may be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

     

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