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The smoldering or glowing combustion of the decomposed organic materials is found below the surface of recently fallen needles and leaves (duff), deep organic soils, and large diameter wood in contact with the soil.
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Wildland fire and prescribed fires are categorized in a number of ways based on observed characteristics such as strata of the fuel involved or fire behavior. Crown fires are associated with fast-moving fire in the upper canopy of the vegetation, while surface fire is the term used to describe the fire at the ground level which consumes down dead woody and live fuels. Ground fire, although sometimes used to describe the burning of the forest litter and surface fuels, is more commonly used to describe smoldering or glowing combustion of forest duff which is a layer of moderately to highly decomposed organic materials found below the surface of recently fallen needles and leaves, deep organic soils which result from the accumulation...
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Reardon, J. (2020). Ground Fire. In: Manzello, S.L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52090-2_27
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