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Spots Pilot Projects Results - Summary Table  


General pilot project information (print PDF file)

Project area
Defined problem fire
Collected historical weather and wind data and evaluated for problem fire
Identified analysis area appropriate to the problem fire size
Created FARSITE landscape from vegetation and other data
Used LANDFIRE data
Calibrated fire behavior model by validating outputs against known fire event(s) or behavior
Held SPOTS workshop
Groups represented at workshop
Butte North, MT
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
   
Yankee Hill, CO
Y
Y
Y
Y
   
Y
Public,
state FS, environmental groups
La Jara, NM
Y
Y
 
Y
 
Y
Y
Public, interagency partners, the Taos Pueblo Tribal Council
Upper Provo, UT
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
FS interdisciplinary team, summer home owners, county commissioner
Five Buttes Interface, OR
Y
Y
Y
Y
 
Y
   
Alder Springs, CA
Y
Y
Y
Y
 
Y
Y
FS interdisciplinary team, representatives from the timber and energy industries, county and local government representatives, the public, and environmental groups
Sagehen, CA
   
Y
Y
 
Y
   
ION - Wando, SC
Y
Y
Y
Y
 
Y
Y
FS, public, state, and local land and fire managers

Tools used and general outcomes

Project area

Used FARSITE
Used FlamMap
Used
MTT
Used
TOM
Used
FVS
Other tools used
Completed iterative process to determine efficacy of particular strategically placed treatments

Created an estimate of how proposed treatments changed the problem fire outcome

Butte North, MT
       
Y
SIMPPLLE
MAGIS
   
Yankee Hill, CO
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
INFORMS,
MSN
Y
Y
La Jara, NM
Y
     
Y
Y
Y
Y
Upper Provo, UT
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Wind Wizard
gridded wind
Y
Y
Five Buttes Interface, OR
       
Y
INFORMS,
MSN,
EnVision
   
Alder Springs, CA
Y
Y
       
Y
Y
Sagehen, CA
       
Y
     
ION - Wando, SC
Y
             

 

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