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.

According to the American Meteorological Society, (also called vapor density). In a system of moist air, the ratio of the mass of water vapor present to the volume occupied by the mixture; that is, the density of the water vapor component.

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

Description of the methods used to determine the certainty and precision of the fire location at the point of origin.

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.

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.

The resource is committed and at the assigned incident.

An organization, office, or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a code or standard, or for approving equipment, materials, an installation, or a procedure.

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

That portion of the fire with slower rates of fire spread and lower intensity normally moving into the wind and/or down slope.

Odd or "even" thousand-foot (305 m) altitudes or flight levels. E.g., 5,000, 6,000, 7,000; FL 250, FL 260, and FL 270.

The city and state pairing for the dispatch center location

The orderly line of authority within the rank of incident management organizations.

The Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) of the complex.

The name of the complex that the fire is assigned.

A model that is a diagram or description of a set of relationships between factors that describe how a system works, such as an ecological model.

The status of a wildfire suppression action signifying that a control line has been completed around the fire, and any associated spot fires, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire's spread.

The status of a wildfire suppression action signifying that a control line has been completed around the fire, and any associated spot fires, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire's spread.

The completion of control line around a fire, any spot fires therefrom, and any interior islands to be saved; burned out any unburned area adjacent to the fire side of the control lines; and cool down all hotspots that are immediate threats to the control line, until the lines can reasonably be expected to hold under the foreseeable conditions. 

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

A particular day of a calendar year.

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.

Elapsed time from start of fire (known or estimated) until the time of the first discovery that results directly in fire suppression action.

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

Documentation Unit staff maintain incident files and data for legal, analytical, and historical purposes, including a complete record of the major steps taken to resolve the incident. They also provide duplication services for incident personnel; compile, reproduce, and distribute the IAP; and maintain the files and records that are developed as part of the IAP and planning function.