NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

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The NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire provides an extensive listing of approved terms and definitions used by the NWCG community. It contains terms commonly used by NWCG in the areas of wildland fire and incident management and is not intended to list all terms used by NWCG groups and member agencies. The NWCG has directed that all committee and subgroup product glossaries be contained within the NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire to maintain definition consistency and clarity among documents.

Comments, questions, and recommendations shall be submitted to the appropriate agency program manager assigned to the Data Standards and Terminology Board (DSTB).

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Title	Status	Definition
modified by system	Approved	Username of system that modified the record.
Frequency Identifier	Approved
state	Approved
Jurisdiction	Approved
point of origin state	Approved	The State alpha code identifying the state or equivalent entity at point of origin.
point of origin datum	Approved	The datum associated with the coordinates that identify the point of origin. Point of origin is the location where a competent ignition source came into contact with the material first ignited and sustained combustion occurred.
Geographic Information System Specialist Miscellaneous	In Development
Property Information	Approved
Incident Management Team name	Approved
significant events	Approved	In the ICS209, observed fire behavior or significant incident events for the current reporting period.
Line Width Feet	In Development
point of origin aspect code	Approved	A code used to describe the direction toward which the predominant slope faces at the point of origin of the fire (including ridgetops and/or flat ground). Point of origin is the location where a competent ignition source came into contact with the material first ignited and sustained combustion occurred.
operational name	Approved	The CURRENT common operational reference to a Resource, the name of the resource and/or call sign. This value will be updated for equipment, crews, modules, and teams based on how the resource is currently being utilized through a filled request.
is national resource	In Development
perimeter date time	Approved	The date and time that the fire perimeter was collected (mapped).
interagency (organization)
radio frequency	In Development
national resource	In Development
Is Visible	Approved
initial fire strategy	In Development
fire strategy	In Development
state financial code	Proposed New
organizational assessment	Grandfathered
Fire	Approved	An event, responded to and/or managed by the wildland fire community, where an ignition resulting in sustained combustion occurred.
Geographic Area Coordination Center Name	Approved
national fire danger adjective class rating code	Approved	The Fire Danger Adjective Class Rating representative of an area that best describes the potential initiation, spread, and difficulty of control during intial response. Fire Danger Adjective Class Rating: A method of normalizing rating classes across different fuel models, indexes, and weather station locations. It is a resultant descriptor of the combination of both constant and variable factors that affect the initiation, spread, and difficulty of control of wildfires on an area.
initial action	In Development
Integrated Reporting of Wildland Fire Information Identifier	Approved
incident size	In Development
Latitude World Geodetic System 1984	Approved
elevation feet	In Development
Repair Status	Approved
repair comments	Approved
polygon date time	Approved	The date and time that the polygon was collected in the field
county	In Development
point date time	Approved	The date and time that the fire point was collected in the field.
point name	Approved
incident type endorsement	Grandfathered	The type of incident for which a resource is qualified to perform in a position.
Predictive Services Area national code	Approved
Predictive Services Area Name	Approved
Point of Origin Responsible Unit	Approved	NWCG Unit Identifier of agency with primary fire protection responsibility at the point of origin of a fire.
final acres	Approved
Point of Origin Latitude Decimal Degrees	Approved	The latitude location of the wildland fire location point specified in decimal degrees.
Perimeter Extant	Approved
merge identifier	Approved
Point of Origin Longitude Decimal Degrees	Approved	The longitude location of the wildland fire location point specified in decimal degrees.
size class	Approved
Incident Type Category	Approved
Fire Year	Approved
point of origin state code	Approved	The State Code identifying the state or equivalent entity at point of origin. Point of origin is the precise location where a competent ignition source came into contact with the material first ignited and sustained combustion occurred.

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NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

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