Wildfire science integrates thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, ecology, and meteorology to predict how fires ignite, spread, and behave across landscapes. The Rothermel spread model, developed for the US Forest Service, remains the backbone of fire behavior prediction systems worldwide, translating fuel characteristics, topography, and weather into actionable spread-rate forecasts.
These simulations let you model fire spread rates under varying fuel and wind conditions, explore dead fuel moisture and ignition thresholds, analyze crown fire transition dynamics, compute composite fire weather indices, and visualize Gaussian plume smoke transport — all with real-time interactive parameter controls grounded in peer-reviewed fire science.