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NFDRS v4 Rollout Workshop Curriculum

Lesson 1: Intent, Policy, and Guidance for Fire Danger Rating and Implementing NFDRSv4

Lesson 2: Using Fire Danger Products to Manage Readiness, Risk, and Response Decisions

Lesson 3: Fire Danger Rating Components, Applications, and Management Tools

Lesson 4, Part 1: NFDRS: Overview, History, and New Science

Lesson 4, Part 2: NFDRS: New Dead Fuel Moisture Model

Lesson 4, Part 3: NFDRS: New Live Fuel Moisture Model

Lesson 4, Part 4: NFDRS: Fuel Model Consolidation

Lesson 5: FDOP Case Study

Lesson 6: Implementation and Evaluation

Lesson 7: Fire Danger Rating Areas

Lesson 8: ArcGIS On-Line (AGOL)

  • Slides, Lesson Plan
  • Task 1: Characterization of Vegetation, Climate, and Topography
  • 1a Tech Tip: Log on to NIFC AGOL
  • 1b Tech Tip: Characterizing Veg, Climate, and Topo in NIFC AGOL
  • Task 2: Delineating Fire Danger Rating Areas
  • 2a Tech Tip: Extracting a local copy from AGOL to edit FDRAs in Desktop ArcGIS
  • 2b Tech Tip: Creating Edge-matched FDRAs in ArcMAP without fire response areas
  • 2c Tech Tip: Creating Edge-matched FDRAs in ArcMAP using fire response areas
  • 2d Tech Tip: Exporting Fires by FDRA

Lesson 9: Framing the Fire Occurrence

Lesson 10: Weather Stations

Lesson 11: Fire Danger Operating Procedures, Decision Classes, and Management Actions

Lesson 12: Applied Statistics for FireFamilyPlus

Lesson 13: FDOP Case Study

Lesson 14: Defining Breakpoints and Thresholds

Lesson 15: Fire Preparedness Plans and their Relationship to the FDOP

Lesson 16: Case Study