NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire, PMS 205

A FireCode used by the USDA Forest Service to track and compile cost information for emergency initial attack fire suppression expenditures for A, B, C, & D size class fires on Forest Service lands.

Agency-specific accounting data. Each agency assigns a specific accounting code to an incident.

Any fire that has not been called "out".

The thing that a person is doing when a wildland fire ignition occurs.

Further refines wildfire cause supporting data, providing information for prevention programs for targeted messaging.

Common name of activity

Type of activity or event

Date when treatment was physically completed

Angle of point symbol displayed in mapping application

The alphanumeric characters assigned to an apparatus.

The external alphanumeric value painted on the side of the equipment.

The resource is committed and at the assigned incident.

The resource can be used to fill a request. Resources on preposition incidents qualify as available.

The Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the complex.

The name of the complex that the fire is assigned.

The dollar amount associated with an incident.

A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory.

Short alphanumeric identification code for countries and dependent areas.

Political subdivisions that fall within a country

The County Code identifying the county or equivalent entity at point of origin designated at the time of collection. Point of origin is the location where a competent ignition source came into contact with the material first ignited and sustained combustion occurred.

Date the feature was created.

Name of the person creating the feature.

System that created the data record.

Date and time the event record was created

The last edit, update, of this GIS record.

The combination of date and time elements.

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.

An attribute flag to tell editors to remove a feature added in error.

The resource is no longer assigned to an incident and travel has started, but the resource has not yet arrived home.

An organization from which resources are ordered, mobilized or assigned to an incident and/or demobilized. The center may process requests, coordinate response, or track resources and information under the delegation of its benefiting agency(s).

Name of the Dispatch Area or Zone

The city and state of the dispatch center

Name of the dispatch center

Unit Identifier for the dispatch center

Levels of the wildland fire dispatch and coordination system

Name of the person editing the feature.

A geographic location's height above or below a fixed reference point

The expected containment or completion date of the incident.

Estimated dollar amount associated with an incident.

A generic term that relates to both planned and unplanned response activities by the interagency wildland fire community.

Documented performance in a position.

Extreme implies a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning and/or spotting, presence of fire whirls, strong convection column. Predictability is difficult because such fires often exercise some degree of influence on their environment and behave erratically, sometimes dangerously. 

Determines who or what groups can view a particular feature.

Type of wildland fire polygon or unburned areas

Number of acres within the final fire perimeter of a specific, individual incident, including unburned and unburnable islands.

Agency or circumstance which started a fire or set the stage for its occurrence; source of a fire's ignition. For statistical purposes fires are grouped into broad cause classes. The nine general causes used in the U.S. are lightning, campfire, smoking, debris burning, incendiary, machine use (equipment), railroad, children, and miscellaneous. 

Any class into which wildland fires are grouped according to their origin.

The date and time a fire was discovered or confirmed to exist.

An expression of fire intensity based on observed and/or calculated flame lengths representative across the immediate vicinity of the point of origin during the initial response. Point of origin is the location where a competent ignition source came into contact with the material first ignited and sustained combustion occurred. Fire intensity levels (FILs) provide "an expression of fireline intensity, based on typical and/ or calculated flame length of a fire behavior condition. FILs are used in the analysis to reflect the differences in difficulty of suppression and fire effects on natural and cultural resources." (Ref. FSH5109.19 ch40.5 9/85)