Initial Test Cases

Eight initial test cases have been identified based on varying geographic, fuels, climate, fire types and data availability considerations.  SEMIP Phase 1 will be focused on analyzing them, but likely will not exhaust the potential of these test cases.

• About test cases
• Identifying the initial test cases
• Scales of the test cases
• Additional test cases
  

National Cases

• Fires Everywhere

  individual fires of 100 and 1000 acres for every 1-km grid cell across the country (not a realistic fire scenario)

• National Emissions Inventory

  a year (2008) of the wildland fire CONUS NEI

Regional Wildfires Case

• California Wildfires
  

  region wide outbreak of fires in Southern California (2007) and Northern California (2008)

Individual Wildfire Cases

• Bugaboo
  

  the 2008 Bugaboo wildfire complex in Georgia/Florida

• Tripod

  the 2006 Tripod wildfire complex in Washington State

Prescribed Fire Cases

• Northwest Regional Rx
  

  one year (2007/2008) of prescribed fire

• Southeast Regional Rx

  one year (2008) of prescribed fire

• Naches Rx
  

  the 2007 individual Naches Rx burn plots in Washington State

Note that additional test cases will be added as data become available.