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FireFamilyPlus System Requirements Print

System Requirements

FireFamilyPlus is a 32-bit MS Windows program.


Operating System Windows Vista ®
Windows XP ®
Windows 2000 ®
Windows NT ®
Windows Me ®
Windows 98 ®
Windows 95 ®

Hard Disk Space Required for Installation 15 Mb

Memory 16 Mb (32 Mb recommended)

Microsoft ® Programs Used MS Access Databases

 

FireFamilyPlus uses MS Access 2000 data files andships with Microsoft DAO/Jet database engine for data access. You can also use MS Access outside of FireFamilyPlus to review your data.

 

Data Requirements

An easy source of historical (not current during calendar year) Fire Weather and Federal Fire Occurrence data is available in the Fire and Weather Data area of the USFS, Fire & Aviation Management (F&AM) Web Applications Website (FAMWEB): http://fam.nwcg.gov/fam-web/

FireFamilyPlus will correctly import the following standard files:

  • Fire Weather
    • 1972 Formatted *.FWX Files (Non Y2K Compliant) from the above website or Data Warehouse.
    • 1998 Formatted *.FW9 Files (Y2K Compliant) from KCFAST or the Data Warehouse
    • User defined weather files in comma delimited text files.

  • Fire Occurrence
    • USFS: PCHA formatted *.RAW files from the above website (Region/Forest/District)
    • DOI: WFMI PCHAFFP formatted files from the above website. (NWCG Unit ID Codes)
    • Custom Agencies: User created comma delimeted text files.
Import modules use a Pivot Year of 30 for Non Y2K compliant data. Years of of 00 to 29 are interpreted as 2000 to 2029. Years of 30 to 99 are interpreted as 1930 to 1999.
Last Updated ( Friday, 15 August 2008 )
 
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