RESEARCH WORKSPACE

Fire spread scenario

Prototype

Tap map or drag ignition N ↑

SCENARIO SETUP

Choose an ignition, then review your scenario.

10 m wind · FROM20 km/h · 270°

Curing · dead moisture80% · 8%

Horizon · grid30 min · 10 m

Assumed fuel state · flat ground · BFC 631 only · mapped surface gaps.

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Research scenario · no spotting, suppression or fire-generated weather or building ignition. Mapped mode uses fuel and surface-gap layers; map tiles alone do not affect spread.

QFD vegetation-fire reports

Tap a purple report pin for details and Generate scenario. Report locations are general-area points.

Find a reportVegetation-fire reports

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SELECTED REPORT

Choose a report to view its source details.

Report points are not current fire fronts and do not establish grass fuel. Record time is not simulation start time. Check official warnings for incident advice.

Official QFD warnings and incidents ↗© State of Queensland (QFD) · CC BY 4.0

TEST YOUR ASSUMPTIONS

Build a scenario

Fuel profiles

Set the fuel state and wind you want to test. Starting values are illustrative, not measured local conditions.

Ignition

LatitudeLongitude

No QFD incident attached.

Grass fuel

Grass condition

Curing (%)Dead moisture (%)

Moisture is percent of dry mass. Fuel load is not an explicit input to this grass spread equation.Coarse modelled fuel pools; scenario assumptions stay as entered.

Wind & duration

Weather source

10 m open wind (km/h)Wind FROM (° true)

Public global-model winds are forecasts, not local measurements. Gusts are context only. Curing, fuel moisture and drought factor stay as assessed or explicitly assumed.Duration (minutes)

Landscape & solver settings

TerrainFuel domainSurface gapsMapped mode requires local coverage and eligible modelled fuel at ignition. Unresolved fuels truncate the forecast. Road widths may be assumed; gaps can be crossed by real fires. No spotting or building ignition is modelled.

Assumed length / breadthGrid (metres)

Ellipse shape is an assumption. Grid size affects fuel patches and gap widths; compare 5–10 m grids before interpreting results. Initial ignition radius is twice grid size.

Fuel-specific research prototype
Inputs stay visible in the result.

REVIEW & COMPARE

Field notebook

Research

Keep results, inspect sources and compare a scenario with an observed perimeter.

On this device

Use “Keep on device” on a result to retain it for offline review. Storage belongs to this browser and may be cleared by the device.

Kept scenarios

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Import scenario JSONDownloaded FireAgent results, up to 5 MB. Import displays the saved result; scenario controls stay unchanged.

Current result · sources & assumptions

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Full model metadata

API documentation ↗

Weather models & nearby observations

Compare public model runs with nearby BoM station context. An observation is not a future forecast validation, and station winds may differ from the selected terrain.

Forest model lab · baseline rate only

Dry eucalypt DEFFM (2012), fuel hazard score version. This older model is a baseline calculator. Vesta Mk 2 is available in the map's assessed dry eucalypt mode. These diagnostic inputs do not change the map scenario.

No forest calculation yet.

Forest model metadata

Vesta Mk 2 reference ↗

Fuel-state sensitivity

Compare headfire rates for explicitly assumed fuel ranges at the specified wind. These are scenarios, not confidence intervals.

Curing low (%)Curing high (%)Moisture low (%)Moisture high (%)

Server records & replay

Completed scenarios and comparisons are saved on the simulation server. Server access is required to load or replay them.

Server records

Compare an observed perimeter

Use a current or imported scenario. The observation must match an exact contour time. Comparisons run on the server.

Forecast start (ISO 8601 with timezone)Forecast contourObserved perimeter GeoJSONOr paste Polygon / MultiPolygon GeoJSONObservation time (ISO 8601 with timezone)Observation sourceSynthetic checks test the workflow and provide no field validation. Observations display in dashed blue.

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A pocket research workspace. No field validation yet; no operational confidence or containment estimates.