FireGUARD (Fire Growth under Uncertainty for Appropriate Response Decision Support) is designed to support wildland fire response decicion-making. FireGUARD contains four core elements:

1. generation of weather forecast scenarios
2. generation of a burn probability map from replicated simulation of fire growth, smouldering, and natural extinction under the weather scenarios and stochastic fire behaviour scenarios
3. assessment of 'risk' (i.e., likelihood-weighted impacts) by multiplying the spatial burn probability by a spatial rating of potential socio-economic impact, and
4. (in progress for future implementation) estimation of the cost of response alternatives

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FireGUARD is published at the following locations:

• Weather forecast model
• Burn probability model (In progress)
• Impact and likelihood-weighted impact model

FireGUARD is the overall suite of products for creating probabilistic fire growth outputs.

Subcomponents include:

FireSTARR

GIS

WeatherSHIELD