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Adjective Rating
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Display Class Breakpoints
Display Class
Drizzle
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Energy Release Component (ERC)
Equilibrium Moisture Content (EMC)
Fine Fuel Moisture
FIRDAT (Fire Data Manipulation Program)
Fire Business Thresholds
Fire Business
Fire Climate
Fire Danger Continuum
Fire Danger Index
Fire Danger Rating Area
Fire Danger Rating Operating Plan
Fire Danger Rating System
Fire Danger
Fire Day
Fire Frequency
Fire Hazard Index
Fire Hazard
Fire Load Index (FLI)
Fire Load
Fire Risk
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)
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Greenness Factor
Herbaceous Fuel Moisture
Herbaceous Stage
Historical Weather Station
Human-caused Fire
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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 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 Factor
Partial Risk
Peak Wind Direction
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Perennial Plant
Pre-Green
Precipitation Amount
Preparedness
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Risk Index
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Spread Index
Spread Index Meter
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Standard Drying Day
Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format code (SHEF)
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Weighted Monthly Occurrence
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