Abstract
A series of experimental fires, each 0.4 ha in size, was conducted between 1975 and 1981 in an unthinned stand of immature jack pine (1948 origin) in central Ontario to gather quantitative fire behavior data for forest fire management purposes. Twelve fires were conducted over a broad range of burning conditions. Fire behavior and impact characteristics (i.e., rate of spread, fuel consumption, and frontal fire intensity) were found to be strongly correlated with fire weather severity as expressed through various component codes and indices of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. This type of experimental fire information, along with wildfire data, is being used in the development of guidelines for quantitative prediction of fire behavior in major Canadian forest fuel types.
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