FARSITE

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FARSITE is a wildfire modeling code written by Mark A. Finney at the US Forest Service.

Distribution

Windows executable, public domain, at firemodels.org. The source code was released into the public domain, but it does not seem to be posted at the moment.

FARSITE is listed as trademarked in the documentation, but USPTO search does not find such registered trademark.

File format

Custom: .WTR, .WND, .ATM, .LCP

Programming language and environments

C++, MS Windows

Documentation

Online documentation is contained in the Windows online help.
Mark A. Finney, FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator-model development and evaluation, Rocky Mountain Research Station Publications, RMRS-RP-4, 1998. Updated 2004.
FARSITE technical reference

Support

Publications

Links to fulltext download.

External links

firemodels.org
fire.org
US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Electronic Search System
http://www.firelab.org US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) Fire Sciences Laboratory

FARSITE

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