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Annual Plant
Aspect
Automatic Weather Station (AWS)
Average Annual Precipitation
Average Relative Humidity
Barometric Pressure
Base Area
Base Fuel Model
Base Observation Time
Boundary Conditions
Boundary Value
Build-up
Buildup Index (BUI)
Burning Index
Climate
Climate Class
Climatological Breakpoint
Cloudy
Condition of Vegetation
Constant Danger
Cured
Daily Activity Level
Departure from Average Greenness (DA)
Display Class
Display Class Breakpoints
Drizzle
Drought
Drought Index
Dry Bulb Temperature
Dry-bulb Temperature
Equilibrium Moisture Content (EMC)
Fine Fuel Moisture
FIRDAT (Fire Data Manipulation Program)
Fire Business
Fire Business Thresholds
Fire Climate
Fire Danger
Fire Danger Continuum
Fire Danger Index
Fire Danger Rating
Fire Danger Rating Area
Fire Danger Rating Operating Plan
Fire Danger Rating PocketCard for Firefighter Safety
Fire Danger Rating System
Fire Day
Fire Frequency
Fire Hazard
Fire Hazard Index
Fire Load
Fire Load Index (FLI)
Fire Pattern Indicator, Curling
Fire Weather Index (FWI)
Fire-Day
FireFamily Plus
Frozen
Fuel Class
Fuel Loading
Fuel Model
Fuel Temperature
Fuels Wet Flag
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)
Grass Type
Green-up
Greenness Factor
Herbaceous Fuel Moisture
Herbaceous Stage
Historical Weather Station
Human-caused Fire
Human-caused Risk
Human-caused Risk Scaling Factor
Ignition Component
Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL)
Instrument Shelter
Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI)
Large Fire-Day
Lightning Activity Level (LAL)
Lightning Fire Occurrence Index
Lightning Risk (LR)
Lightning Risk Scaling Factor
Live Fuel Moisture Content
Live Fuels
Live Herbaceous Moisture Content
Live Woody Moisture Content
Long-Term Fire Danger
Manual Weather Station
Maximum Dry Bulb Temperature
Maximum Relative Humidity
Measured Woody Fuel Moisture
Minimum Dry Bulb Temperature
Minimum Relative Humidity
Multiple Fire-Day
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS)
National Interagency Fire Management Integrated Database (NIFMID)
NESDIS ID
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Occurrence Index (OI)
One-hour Timelag Fuel Moisture (1-h TL FM)
One-hour Timelag Fuels
One-hundred Hour Timelag Fuel Moisture (100-h TL FM)
One-hundred Hour Timelag Fuels
One-thousand Hour Timelag Fuel Moisture (1,000-h TL FM)
One-thousand Hour Timelag Fuels
Partial Risk
Partial Risk Factor
Peak Wind Direction
Peak Wind Speed
Perennial Plant
Pre-Green
Precipitation Amount
Preparedness
Project Activity Level (PAL)
Rating Period
Relative Greenness (RG)
Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS)
Risk Index
Season Code
Severity Index
Shrub Type
Slope Class
Slope Percent
Solar Radiation
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Spread Component
Spread Index
Spread Index Meter
Staffing Index
Staffing Level
Standard Drying Day
Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format code (SHEF)
State of Weather
Station Catalog
Station ID
Sunny
Ten-hour Timelag Fuel Moisture (10-h TL FM)
Ten-hour Timelag Fuels
Timelag (TL)
Total Risk
Transition
Variable Danger
Visual Greenness (VG)
Weather Information Management System (WIMS)
Weighted Monthly Occurrence
Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS)
