Tree Pane Interface

In addition to the usual menus, commands, and toolbar buttons FlamMap has a hierarchical tree interface that makes it easy to navigate throught a fire behavior analysis.

Dead Fuel Moisture Model

Instead of using the same dead fuel moistures for all cells of a fuel model, FlamMap has the option of using a weather stream to condition dead fuels based on slope, shading, elevation, aspect, and the weather stream.

Because FlamMap uses fuel moistures at one point in time, and of course topography does not change, FlamMap is an ideal tool to compare relative fire behavior changes resulting from fuel modifications.

However FlamMap will not simulate temporal variations in fire behavior caused by weather and diurnal flucuations. Nor will it display spatial variations caused by backing or flanking fire behavior. These limitations need to be considered when viewing FlamMap output in an absolute rather than relative sense.