Definition
FOFEM is the acronym for the First-Order Fire Effects Model that is a computer program for predicting immediate fire effects, namely, fuel consumption, soil heating, smoke emissions, and tree mortality.
Introduction
First-order fire effects are the direct impacts from the combustion processes that occur during or shortly after a fire. FOFEM, the first-order fire effects model, is a computer program that was developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for the effects of planned and unplanned wildfires and prescribed burns (Reinhardt and Keane 1998). FOFEM includes simulations of four major fire effects: fuel consumption, smoke emissions, soil heating, and tree mortality. First-order fire effects form an important basis for the prediction of secondary effects such as tree regeneration, plant succession, and changes in site productivity, but these long-term effects generally involve interactions with many other variables...
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Keane, R.E., Lutes, D. (2018). First-Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM). In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_74-1
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