… how fire managers respond to weather- and value-driven fire risk. We analyze … resource
ordering patterns to determine whether fire managers order resources in anticipation of weather …

… Sources in red text indicate they are tailored for the wildland fire community. The sources
above the thick black bar were consulted by more than 50% of survey respondents. …

… comparing threats to valued resources and predicting and … risk assessments are still relatively
new to wildland fire, however, … the unique climatic and seasonal patterns of fire occurrence. …

… on wildfire activity are available from the US Department of … of fire-fighting resources in the
western United States, the … Donnegan, 2000: Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in …

… in order to characterize how temporal variability in weather … simulated weather conditions),
and the expected value of wildfire … Fortunately, the large fires we are most interested in tend to …

… Meaningful increases in wildland fire use could multiply the amount of beneficial fire on the
… moderate fire weather conditions, actively managing wildfires for resource benefit (ie, “fire …

… at low risk of loss from wildfire, and many natural resources … Lastly, we describe the generation
of Potential wildland fire … nature of weather and fire occurrence across the large landscape…

… This risk avoidance combined with other factors such as the availability of fire management
resources such as engines and … In order to mitigate the increasing threat of wildfires, the …

… require more resources to fight than one large fire does. … when the Canadian Fire Weather
Index exceeds a high locally … We used a 10 000-sample bootstrap to estimate the order …

… responsibility for ordering fire management resources. The survey … database of fire growth
and resource use on large fires. The … fire weather predictions and their relationship to resource …