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 THE CANADIAN FORESTRY SERVICE
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

The Canadian Forestry Service is the principal source of federal expertise in forestry. Its general
objective is to promote the wise management and use of Canada's forest resources for the
economic, social, and environmental benefit of Canadians.

The following are the main functions of the CFS:

1 Coordination of federal policies, for the promotion of better resource management and forest
industry development.

Provision of scientific and technological leadership in forestry through research and

development.

Provision and analysis of national and international statistics and information as a basis for
policy formulation.

Development and certification of codes and standards for wood product performance.

5. Protection of Canada's forests from foreign pests.

6. Fostering the potential use of the forest resource for energy.

Contributing to the environmental objectives of the government of Canada.

A number of federal agencies are involved in forestry programs and a Federal Forestry Sector
Strategy Committee has been established to coordinate federal forestry activities. The Canadian
Forestry Service has been designated the lead agency role.

The Canadian Forestry Service is comprised of a headquarters unit, six forestry centres and two
national institutes. The forestry centres are responsive to regional priorities and maintain close
liaison with the respective provincial government forestry departments and other clients. They also
participate in, and frequently lead, national programs. The national institutes provide the focus for
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The original Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System issued in 1970 was the result of four
years' effort, in which many fire research staff of the Canadian Forestry Service took part. The
principal work was done by S.J. Muraro and J.A. Turner of the Pacific Forest Research Centre (now
the Pacific Forestry Centre), A.J. Simard of the Forest Fire Research Institute (later amalgamated
with the Petawawa National Forestry Institute), and C.E. Van Wagner of the Petawawa Forest
Experiment Station (now the Petawawa National Forestry Institute). D.E. Williams, Director of the
Forest Fire Research Institute, acted as coordinator of the project, which involved voluminous
correspondence and several full-scale meetings. Others who contributed in various ways and gave
advice and opinion as the system developed included R.C. Henderson, B.D. Lawson, and R.N.
Russell of the Pacific Forest Research Centre, A.D. Kiil, D. Quintilio, and J.E. Grigel of the Northern
Forest Research Centre (now Northern Forestry Centre), B.J. Stocks and J.D. Walker of the Great
Lakes Forest Research Centre (now Great Lakes Forestry Centre), E.W. Howard and D.B.
Bradshaw of the Newfoundland Forest Research Centre (now Newfoundland Forestry Centre),
and D.G. Fraser, L.B. MacHattie, P.M. Paul, L. Pouliot, and Gy. Pech of the Forest Fire Research
Institute. Finally, J.C. Macleod, Program Coordinator for Forest Fire Research, provided beneficial
influence and support throughout.

Subsequent maintenance and further development of the Fire Weather Index System has been
in the hands of the Candian Forestry Service's Fire Danger Working Group, currently comprising
M.E. Alexander of the Northern Forestry Centre, B.D. Lawson of the Pacific Forestry Centre, B.J.
Stocks of the Great Lakes Forestry Centre, and C.E. Van Wagner of the Petawawa National
Forestry Institute.

The present publication is a revision of Departmental Publication 1333, "Structure of the

Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index" issued in 1974 by the Canadian Forestry Service, Depart-
ment of Environment.

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L'lndice Foret-Meteo (IFM) est un indice des conditions meteorologiques propices aux incen-
dies de forets. II a ete publie en 1970 apres plusieurs annees de travaux par des agents de
recherche du Service canadien des forets. Les meilleures caracteristiques de I'ancien indice de
danger de feu ont ete retenues dans Ie nouvel indice et un lien a ete conserve entre I'ancien et Ie
nouveau. L'IFM est fonde sur la teneur en humidite de trois classes de combustibles forestiers,
plus I'effet du vent sur Ie comportement du feu. II consiste en six composantes: trois sous-indices
primaires representant I'humidite du combustible, deux sous-indices intermediaires representant
Ie taux de propagation du feu et la consommation des combustibles, et un indice final representant
I'intensite de feu sous forme de rendement energetique par unite de longueur. L'IFM se refere
fondamentalement a une foret standard de pin, mais sert utilement comme indice general du
danger d'incendies de forets au Canada. C'est par des observations journalieres des conditions
meteorologiques, a midi, qu'on Ie redige: temperature, humidite relative, vitesse du vent et
pluviosite (si elle existe). Ce document decrit Ie developpement de I'IFM, leg concepts qui ont
preside a sa preparation, et sa structure mathematique. De nouvelles versions de I'IFM ont ete
publiees en 1976 et 1984.

Correct citation
Van Wagner, C.E. 1987. Development and structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index
System. Can. For. Serv., Ottawa, Onto For. Tech. Rep. 35.

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INDEX SYSTEM
The Fire Weather Index (FWI) System comprises six standard components. The first three are
fuel moisture codes that follow daily changes in the moisture contents of three classes of forest fuel
with different drying rates. The last three components are fire behavior indexes representing rate of
spread, fuel weight consumed, and fire intensity. The system depends solely on weather readings
taken each day at noon local standard time (LST): temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, and
rain (if any) during the previous 24 hours. The current month must also be specified. In basic form,
the FWI System is a set of equations (Van Wagner and Pickett 1985) that can be readily processed
by computer; this is in contrast to previous systems, in which the basic form was always a set of
curves that were converted directly to tables. The FWI can also be worked out from the published
set of nine tables derived directly from these equations (Canadian Forestry Service 1984).

It should be understood that although the FWI is calculated from noon weather readings, it really
represents fire danger at its midafternoon peak, generally specified as 1600 hours. This comes
about because, in the original work, the noon weather variables were correlated with fine fuel
moisture data and test-fire results taken later in the afternoon. In this respect, the FWI System is
similar to all previous Canadian systems used since 1938.

For each of the three fuels embodied in the FWI System a subsidiary index was developed with
two phases, one for wetting by rain and one for drying. These subindexes, called fuel moisture
codes, are in fact bookkeeping systems that add moisture after rain and subtract some for each
day's drying. They are arranged in code form with values rising as moisture content decreases for
the best psychological effect. The three moisture codes and their corresponding fuels are:

1. Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC), which represents the moisture content of litter and other
cured fine fuels in a forest stand, in a layer of dry weight about 0.25 kg/m2;

Duff Moisture Code (DMC) , which represents the moisture content of loosely compacted,
decomposing organic matter weighing about 5 kg/m2 when dry;

Drought Code (DC), which represents a deep layer of compact organic matter weighing
perhaps 25 kg/m2 when dry.

Although these descriptions are useful for explanatory purposes, comparison of the moisture
codes is best made in terms of water capacity and drying speed. Each fuel is considered to dry
exponentially, so that its instantaneous drying rate is proportional to its current free moisture
content. The proper measure of drying speed is either the timelag (i.e. time to lose 1-1/e [about 2/3]
of the free moisture above equilibrium), or the slope of the exponential curve of free moisture
content over time, here called the log drying rate. Table 1 gives for each moisture code the timelag
in terms of normal days (with noon temperature 21.1 °C (70°F) and relative humidity 45 percent in
July), as well as its water capacity, fuel properties, and the daily weather parameters required for
calculation.

The two slow-reacting moisture codes, the DMC and DC, respond to changing daylength as the
season progresses. This feature is necessary because the amount of moisture lost daily by slow-
drying fuels is as much dependent on the time available as on the noon atmospheric conditions.
The midafternoon moisture content of fast-drying fuels, represented by the FFMC, is less depen-
dent on day length.

Table 1. Properties
. of the three fuel moisture codes
Water Nominal Nominal
Timelag capacity Required fuel depth fuel load
Code days
- mm parameters1 cm kg/m2
FFMC 2/3 0.6 T, H, W, r 1.2 0.25
DMC 12 15 T, H, r, mo 7 5
DC 52 1 00 T, r, mo 18 25
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BACKGROUND

The ancestor of the Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) is the Tracer Index for litter that first
appeared as the principal component of an early fire danger rating system for eastern pine forests
(Wright 1937). The Tracer Index was developed from concurrent weather and fuel-moisture data
obtained in pine stands at Petawawa by multiple correlation of present moisture content with
current weather and the previous day's moisture content. The fuel represented was a layer of pine
needles or other surface litter, probably about 0.25 kg/m2. This fuel can be called relatively fast-
drying, but the substantial effect of the previous day's value meant that drying time was by no
means instantaneous. In subsequent years, this Tracer Index was found by various fire re-
searchers to correlate well with litter moisture contents in many parts of Canada; it was retained,
therefore, as an integral part of all subsequent fire danger tables issued by the federal forest
research organization. The particular version of the Tracer Index chosen for this work appears in
Beall's (1948) Forest Fire Danger Tables. The special needs of the new system required analysis
and modification of the original Tracer Index.

The following description of the Fine Fuel Moisture Code is fairly complete because there is no
other substantial reference to it.

SCALE

The original Tracer Index was presented in the simple code form of 150 minus moisture content.
Because the highest and lowest tracer values were 144 and 40, the scale length was 104. For the
tabular version of the new system, a two-digit code was desired with maximum value of 99, a scale
length 5 points less than the original. The minimum moisture content (m) was set at 2 percent,
resulting in a scale equation

F = 101 -m (1)
where F is FFMC. This scale was the basis of the FFMC in the first three editions of the FWI
System, but was changed in the 1984 version on the following grounds:

1) The real moisture content of pine litter ranges up to about 250 percent.
A realistic moisture scale was desired to render the standard FFMC compatible with future
2)
developments in fine fuel moisture prediction.

A new scale, the FF scale, was devised, described by the following equations

= 59.5 (25Q-m)/(147.2 + m) (2a)

m = 147.2 (101-F)/(59.5 + F) (2b)

This scale (see Figure 2) permits realistic conversions from code to moisture content, allows the
internal operations of the FFMC to be carried out on moisture content value, and retains the
traditional code scale for quoting the FFMC itself. Furthermore, the former artificial 2 percent
minimum limit on moisture content is no longer deemed necessary in computing practice. The
potential code scale length is now 101.

DRYING PHASE

The first step in analyzing the Tracer Index was to list a series of day-to-day drying sequences,
each at constant relative humidity (H), wind (W), and temperature (T), by starting at saturation and
repeatedly entering the Tracer Index tables until no further change occurred. The resulting
equilibrium moisture content (E) for each drying sequence was subtracted from the day-to-day
moisture contents (m) and the free moisture contents were plotted as log (m-E) against time in
days. In this way, a set of six semilog curves at different wind speeds was obtained for each of eight
humidity classes, all for the original temperature class 60 -80°F (15.6 -26.7°C). The class
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a 15 percent increase in drying rate for a20°F (11.1°C) rise in temperature, whereas laboratory tests
on pine needles indicated a 50 percent increase. The function to accomplish this temperature
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In the published account of these laboratory tests (Van Wagner 1979), the temperature effect
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relation in Equation 6 above is essentially equivalent and is illustrated in Figure 3.

In the first edition of tables of the FWI system (Canadian Forestry Service 1970 and 1972), the
FFMC was presented as one main table in terms of Hand W, with a subsidiary table for
temperature correction. Although expedient then, the results were not quite true to the mathe-
matics. In later editions, separate tables in Hand W have been given for each range of T, thus
expressing the equations in proper fashion.

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
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W (km/h)

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where kd or kw is the appropriate log drying or wetting rate obtained from Equation (5). If mo lies
between Ed and Ew, no change is assumed, and m = mo.

RAINFALL PHASE

Next, the effect of rainfall on the Tracer Index was examined. The original rainfall table was
analyzed for increase in moisture content per unit of rain. It was observed that this quantity
decreased a) with increasing rainfall amount, and b) with increasing initial moisture content mo. In
other words, as the amount of rainfall increased, a smaller proportion of it was held by the litter;
also, the higher the litter's initial moisture, the less rain it could absorb. For earlier versions of the
FWI system, J.A. Turner supplied a set of three equations, for different ranges of rain amount, that
matched the original rainfall table well. These operated on the code value. For the new version, a
rainfall routine was required that operated on moisture content itself, rather than on code value. A
new equation was therefore developed in the form

6m/r = C e-b/(2SD-mO)(1-e-a/r)
(11)
where 6m is increase in m due to rain r, and a, b, and c are constants. The 250 represents the
maximum value of moisture content in the previously described FF scale. The rainfall effectiveness
6m/r is decreased by the first bracketed term with increasing mo, and by the second bracketed
term with increasing r.

The constant c was first set as the limit of L:.m/r as mo and r approach zero. For the standard
FFMC fuel load of 0.25 kg/m2, the first millimetre of rain should, therefore, cause a rise of 400
percent in m. This value was reduced to 42.5 to match the original Tracer Index rainfall table and
Turner's equations, implying that the maximum effectiveness of rain in wetting litter is only about 10
percent and decreases from there.

Trials with other coefficients produced the following equation

6m/rf = 42.5 e-100/(251-"'o) (1-e-6.93/rf) (12)

The 251 appears in place of 250 in order to prevent division by zero should mo ever equal 250; r f is
net rainfall, described below in Equation 14. When converted to code values, this equation's results
match the output of the previous equations within one or two points over a wide range of rain
amount and initial moisture content, with a slight exception explained below.

Because the behavior of Equation 12 is slightly anomalous when both rain amount and initial
moisture content are large, a corrective term was added for use at high initial moisture content. This
correction equals

0.0015 {mO-150)2rfO.5 (13)

It is added to Equation 12 only when mo exceeds 150, and comes into play when the resulting
FFMC code value is about 5 or less.

Finally, the amount of rain to be used in Equations 12 and 13 was reduced to allow for loss in the
overhead canopy. Thus

rf=ro-O.5 (14)
where rf is net rain amount and ro is observed rainfall in the open, in millimetres. In other words
rainfalls of up to 0.5 mm are to be ignored for purposes of the FFMC. In dry weather, the rainfall
equations are not used. The increase in moisture content due to rain is assumed to occur always
before the day's drying begins.

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THE DUFF MOISTURE CODE

BACKGROUND

In Beall's (1939) supplement to the second generation of Canadian forest fire danger indexes,
there appeared a subsidiary index called the Drought Index. While the Tracer Index represented
usually only several days of past weather and its effect on fine fuel moisture content, the Drought
Index took account of up to 25 days of weather history. Its purpose was to stratify the day-to-day fire
weather according to the number of days since appreciable rain; in physical concept it could be
likened to a simple reservoir in which rain accumulated additively, and which lost a constant
amount for each day without rain. Although the Drought Index, unlike a real fuel, was linear in both
its drying and wetting phases, it performed a useful function in the next two systems of danger
rating.
When work began around 1970 on the first version of the FWI System, it was generally agreed
that a subsidiary index was required that represented the moisture content of some real slow-
drying forest fuel. The fuel chosen because of its universal and continuous presence in Canadian
forests was the duff layer, roughly equivalent to the F-layer of soil science. An index filling this need
appears in the new system as the Duff Moisture Code (DMC). It was developed after 4 years of field
work, mainly in red pine and jack pine stands. The basic method was to transfer rectangles of
organic matter to trays 60 x 40 cm in area set in the forest floor, and to weigh them daily. The DMC
represents duff layers about 7 cm deep and 5 kg/m2 in dry weight. Because a published descrip-
tion already exists (Van Wagner 1970a), only an outline of its structure is presented here.

SCALE
A scale for the DMC was designed after the manner of the U.S. Buildup Index (U.S. Forest
Service 1966) on a logarithmic function of the actual moisture content that rises with dryness. The
type expression is

p = c [log (Mmax-E) -log (M -E)] (15)

where c is a scale constant, P is code value, M is moisture content, and E is the equilibrium
moisture content. Mmax was set equal to 300, and E to 20. The actual scale equation in natural
logarithms for the chosen moisture limits of 300 and 20 percent was then

p = 244.72 -43.43 In (M -20) (16)

This scale is illustrated in Figure 5. The main advantage of such a scale is that it permits the
addition of daily drying increments that are independent of the current value of the code.

RAINFAll PHASE

In the wetting phase of the DMC, two principles form the basis of the equations:

The increase in moisture content per unit of rain is inversely proportional to the amount of a
1)
rainfall.
The wetting effect of a rainfall decreases with increasing initial moisture content.
2)

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Figure 5. Graph of scale linking DMC to duff moisture content.

In other words, the duff layer retains a greater fraction of a light rainfall than a heavy one, and the
wetter the duff the less rain it can absorb. Although the effect of rainfall duration was demonstrated
in the original work, it was decided to omit this complication in the practical moisture code. In the
DMC, the effective rain r e is given as a function of the total rain r 0 by

re = 0.92 ro -1.27 ro >1.5 (17)

where r e is net rain amount and r 0 is observed rainfall in the open. In any event, rainfalls of up to
1.5 mm are ignored for purposes of the DMC, and Equations 17 and 18 (below) are not used unless
ro exceeds that amount. The moisture content after rain (Mr) is given by

Mr = Mo + 1000 re/(48.77 + bre) (18)

The coefficient b was first expressed as a plotted curve, which was then rendered in terms of the
initial code Po by a set of three empirical equations for different ranges of Po:

b = 100/(0.5 + 0.3 Po) , Po .:S33 (19a)

b = 14 -1.3 In Po , 33 < Po .:S65 (1gb)

b = 6.2 In Po -17.2 I Po> 65 (19c)

200
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150
DRYING PHASE

The drying phase of the DMC consists of two equations and a short table based on the following
points:

1) Day-to-day drying in constant weather is exponential.

2) The duff layer has, for practical purposes, a constant equilibrium moisture content E of
20 percent.

3) The log drying rate K is proportional to temperature, becoming negligible at about -1°C.

4) The log drying rate K is proportional to the deficit in relative humidity.

5) The daylength, varying with season, has an effect roughly proportional to three less than the
number of hours between sunrise and sunset.

The log drying rate K is given by

K = 1.894 (T + 1.1)(100 -H) Le x 10-6

where Le is an empirical daylength factor listed by month in Table 2. The present day's DMC is
then found from

P = Po (or Pr) + 100K

where K is multiplied by 100 to yield values matching the chosen scale.

Table 2. Daylength factor L" in Duff Moisture Code

January 6.5 July 12.4

February 7.5 August 10.9
March 9.0 September 9.4
April 12.8 October 8.0
May 13.9 November 7.0
June 13.9 December 6.0

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 DROUGHT CODE
BACKGROUND

The Fine Fuel Moisture Code covers only the thin surface layer of fast-drying material, whereas
the Duff Moisture Code applies to organic layers of moderate depth and dry weight. Real firedanger,
however, is also affected by the state of the deeper organic layers common in many parts ofCanada,
by concentrations of large downed wood, and even by the availability of water in small
streams and swamps. It was decided, therefore, to include a third, very slow-drying moisture index
in the FWI System and to call it the Drought Code.

The Drought Code (DC) was first developed by Turner (1966) to serve as an index of the water
stored in the soil rather than to follow the moisture state of a particular slow-drying forest fuel.
Because soil loses moisture exponentially, such an index is quite suited to represent certain heavyfuels.
Muraro and Lawson (1970) identified one such material; they established that the DC follows
reasonably well the moisture variations in deep, compact duff layers on Vancouver Island. These
layers are, on the average, about 18 cm deep and 25 kg/m2 in dry weight. Deep duff layers of a
similar nature under balsam fir forest at Petawawa and upland black spruce in northern Quebec
have also been found to match the DC well in drying rate (Van Wagner 1974). One function of a
slow-acting moisture code such as the DC is to warn of occasions when the lower layers of deep
duff may be drier than the upper. Both Muraro and Lawson (1970) and Kiil1 report field studies of
this phenomenon, which results in persistent deep smoldering even though surface fire behavior
may not be severe.

In its initial form, the DC was called the 8tored Moisture Index (8MI) and was expressed directly
in 100ths of an inch of water up to a maximum of 800 (i.e., 8 inches of water). To match the style of
the DMC, the 8MI was converted to a logarithmic scale rising with dryness. A brief mathematical
description of the DC follows, and Turner (1972) gives a complete description.

800

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Figure 6. Graph of scale linking DC to its moisture equivalent Q.

1Kiil, A.D. 1970. Distribution of moisture in spruce-fir duff and its relevance to fire danger rating. Can. Forest. Serv., Northern
Forest Res. Centre Internal Rep. A-34.

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The scale of the 8MI (the original form of the DC) was 800 units in length, 800 representing
saturation and zero representing the driest condition normally encountered. The required equation
for the new logarithmic scale was analogous to the one forming the basis of the DMC. As an
exponential expression of the moisture equivalent Q, the chosen scale equation is

D = 400 In (BOO/a) (22)

where D is the current DC. The constant 400 represents the maximum theoretical moisture content
of the fuel represented by the DC. As in the DMC, this type of scale permits the addition of daily
drying increments that are independent of the current value of the DC (Figure 6).

RAINFALL PHASE

Rainfall in the DC is first reduced to an effective rainfall rd and then simply added to the existing
moisture equivalent 00 to give 0 r' the moisture equivalent after rain. The two equations are

rd = O.~3 ro -1.27 , ro > 2.8 (23)

and Or = O~ + 3.937rd (24)

Rainfalls of up to 2.8 mm are ignored for purposes of the DC; Equations 23 and 24 are not used
unless r 0 exceeds that amount.

DRYING PHASE

The daily dry-weather additives to the DC actually represent potential evapotranspiration (V),
which is given by an empirical equation dependent on noon temperature and season:

v = 0.36 (T + 2.8) + Lf
(25)
The seasonal daylength adjustment Lf is listed by month in Table 3. Because the scale length of
the DC is in a sense one-half that of the original SMI (see Equation 22), the value of V is halved and
added to the initial code Do (or, in case of rain, to Dr). The present day's DC is thus found from

D = Do (or Dr) + 0.5 V

(26)
OVERWINTERING

The timelag of the DC, 52 days in standard weather, is long enough that the amount of
precipitation during winter may affect the season's starting value. In other words, the assumption
that melting snow always saturates the DC fuel layer cannot be counted on. Following the
procedure of Turner and Lawson (1978), the DC starting value is computed from

as = a af + b (3.94rw)
(27)
where Of is final fall moisture equivalent (from final D by Equation 22),
r w is winter precipitation in millimetres,
Os is starting spring moisture equivalent, and
a and b are constants.

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constitutes an integral aspect of the DC and its computation. The values of a and b are set
according to the judgment of each agency and its advisors. Experience so far is that an overwinter
adjustment is almost never necessary in eastern Canada, but will be needed occasionally in
certain western regions as described, for example, by Alexander (1982).

Table 3. Daylength adjustment Lf in Drought Code

Month Lf

November to March -1.+0.

69

April
May 3. 88
June 5.

July 6. 4
August 5. a

September 2. 4
October O.4

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THE FIRE WEATHER INDEX SYSTEM IN USE

CALCULATION

The codes and indexes of the FWI System may be determined either by computer or from
tables. The basic form of the system is the standard set of equations. Most of these have been
used in the present publication in explaining and illustrating the system's structure. The complete
set is listed in Van Wagner and Pickett (1985), and includes several others designed to improve
internal consistency in minor ways. The published set of tables (Canadian Forestry Service 1984)
was derived from these equations.

Several historical computer programs have figured in the development of the FWI System and its
use. The first was by Nikleva and Parent (1971). Others were designed by Simard (1970b), Engisch
and Walker (1971), Kean (1975), and Kourtz (1980). The present official program (included in Van
Wagner and Pickett 1985) processes the present equations to give the purest possible mathe-
matical output, with no artificial constraints other than those required by the empirical nature of
some of the equations. Although it is arranged to handle one station's weather data one season at a
time, its mathematical routines serve as a standard of comparison, and may be incorporated as
blocks into operational daily programs serving any number of stations.

A perennial problem in computation deserves mention. The traditional means of working out fire
danger indexes in Canada in years past was by a set of manual tables; these by themselves
formerly constituted the standard. The FWI System, however, is based on equations that can only
be processed conveniently by computer. It is, of course, impossible to design a set of tables that
will match the pure mathematical computer output all of the time. Great pains have been taken to
make the tables as accurate as possible and to minimize bias in the average table output, but day-
to-day error will occur to some degree in all codes and indexes. Most agencies now compute the
FWI System output centrally and redistribute it to the individual stations. However, the tables are
still in widespread use locally for quick answers as soon as weather observations are available. An
agency then has two choices. It can. adopt the mathematical output as standard, instructing any
station that keeps a table record to adjust it occasiona)ly to match the computer record. Or it can
place the tables themselves in the computer, and adopt the table output as standard. Of course,
this choice will be a matter of policy. Nevertheless, it is understood that whenever critical
comparison or development is required the equation output is the true standard.

Since the FWI System depends only on weather readings and the date (by month), its output can
just as easily be calculated from forecast weather to yield a forecast of fire danger. In cooperation
with the Atmospheric Environment Service, most forest fire agencies now issue such forecasts up
to 24 hours in advance of the standard noon determinations. Paul (1970), Pouliot (1974), and
Nikleva (1975) have described operational procedures.

INTERPRETATION

The FWI was originally conceived to represent frontal fire intensity as defined by Byram (1959) in
the equation

I = HWR (42)

where, in compatible units, H is heat of combustion, W is weight of fuel consumed per unit area, R
is rate of advance, and I is energy output rate per unit length of fire front.

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from 48° to 66°N were processed by the hourly FFMC computation described by Van Wagner
(1977). The 1600 h FFMCs obtained by this method were compared with the standard FFMC
worked from the noon observations; this latter presumably predicts the 1600 h actual value. The
discrepancies, computed as 1600-hour value minus standard value, ranged from 1.1 at 48°N to 2.5
at 66°N, on base FFMCs in the high 80s. The correction, if it were desired, would be to progres-
sively delay the standard observation time from 1200 h at lower latitudes to about 1400 h at higher
latitudes. This is because the time of the maximum temperature and minimum RH in high summer
is progressively later as latitude increases. However, the discrepancies were not judged serious
enough to warrant officially recommending such revised procedures. The FFMC, in other words,
measures the peak flammability condition reasonably well at all latitudes. Its diurnal range,
however, does decrease markedly with latitude in high summer, meaning that fine fuel remains
flammable for a longer proportion of the day as one proceeds north.

To test the DMC, theoretical daylength factors were computed for three latitudes 45°, 55°, and
65°N, and used to compute modified DMCs for the weather in a fairly dry season (actually 1967 at
Lac la Biche). In comparison with the standard DMC, the output is tabulated below, based on six
months, May to October.

45°N 55°N 65°N Standard

Season average 34.5 32.4 30.0 31.9
Maximum value 85 83 78 88

The standard version does not fit quite smoothly with the three special versions because its
daylength factors were worked out empirically. Nevertheless, it represents the average case
reasonably well. Several such tests were carried out, and the differences were again not judged
serious enough to warrant supplying special DMCs for different latitudes.

The DC was tested in an analogous manner using the same season's weather data. The additive
nature of the daylength adjustment In the DC produces higher differences than obtained with the
DMC, especially toward the end of the season. The output of the three theoretical versions is )
tabulated with the standard DC below, again based on the six months from May to October. )'

45°N 55°N 65°N Standard

Season average 312 302 274 293
Maximum value 523 497 436 495

Again, the standard version was representative, and these variations were not judged great
enough to warrant special DCs for different latitudes.

The three tests described above were computational only. True definitive testing for latitude
effect would need field data, which are not yet available in sufficient quantity. In any event, because
all three moisture codes are consistent with weather and its effect on regional fuels at any particular
latitude, the problem of comparison among widely different latitudes will probably never become
serious.

CONCLUSION

Because it was built up to represent fire behavior in a generalized standard fuel type, the FWI
System will obviously have different meanings in different forest or fuel types. The initial interest
was mainly in logging slash of different types (Muraro 1971, Quintilio 1972, Stocks 1972), but data
linking spread rate with the FWI System in various forest and vegetation types has accumulated
steadily. In fact the FWI System is just part of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating
System (CFFDRS), which now includes the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP)
System, designed to provide quantitative estimates of fire behavior in particular fuel types. An
interim version of this latter (Alexander et al. 1984) provides equations for predicting rate of spread
in 14 vegetation and slash fuel types throughout Canada, as well as topographical adjustments
and fire growth. It is on this line of work that further research and development will be concentrated
in future.

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f(F) fine fuel moisture function
R present day's ISI

BUILDUP INDEX BUI

'esent day's BL

FIRE WEATHER INDEX (FWI)

1(0) duff moisture f~nction

B FWI (intermediate form)
S present day's FWI

SEVERITY RATING

DSR Daily Severity Rating

SSR Seasonal Severity Rating

37