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.

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.

Date when treatment was physically completed

Angle of point symbol displayed in mapping application

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 
 
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)

Name of person that provided the data for the fire report or is the contact for questions regarding the fire report.

Indicates if the resource record being submitted or updated is an initial response resource or daily resource record.

A code that corresponds to one of several ranges of fire size based on the number of acres within the final fire perimeter.

The first name of the resource as it appears on a government issued ID.

A descriptor of a human resource's physical work capacity

Indicates if the Forest Service provided assistance on an incident outside their jurisdiction.

A code used to indicate the Forest Service override code for the incident. This is specific to the Forest Service, and is usually displayed as a four-character suffix on FireCode.

A designation of the kind of communications that will occur on an assigned radio frequency.

Communication about the request and fulfilling that request

Indicates the state of the request.

Indicates whether the resource is available or unavailable to fill a capability request.

A boundary designated by governmental agencies (wildland fire protection agencies) within which they work together for the interagency, intergovernmental planning, coordination, and operations leadership for the effective utilization of emergency management resources within their area. There are ten geographic areas. A listing of the areas can be found in the National Interagency Mobilization Guide, Chapter 70 along with listings of the Geographic Coordinating Areas and Geographic Area Coordination Centers.

A code that identifies one of the wildland fire geographic areas.

The name of the geographic area that identifies a boundary designated by wildland fire protection agencies within which they work together for the interagency, intergovernmental planning, coordination, and operations leadership for the effective utilization of emergency management resources.

The physical location of an interagency, regional operation center for the effective coordination, mobilization and demobilization of emergency management resources. A coordination center serves federal, state and local wildland fire agencies through logistical coordination of resources throughout the geographic area, and with other geographic areas, as well. Listings of geographic coordination centers and their respective geographic coordinating areas can be found within the National Interagency Mobilization Guide. 

Shortened form of Geographic Area Coordination Center name.