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Fuel Characteristics Classification System

The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) – developed by the USDA, Pacific Northwest Experiment Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory (PWFSL) in Seattle, WA – is a system for describing wildland fuels. Fire managers can use the FCCS to assign fuelbed characteristics for the purposes of predicting fuel consumption and smoke production through PWFSL’s CONSUME software. Upon full implementation, the LANDFIRE team plans to work with FCCS staff to provide crosswalk assignments of FCCS fuelbed numbers to LANDFIRE existing vegetation layers. The assignment of FCCS numbers to these layers is currently in developmental stage and will be implemented at a later date.

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