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. Source code was released into public domain, but it does not seem to be posted at the moment.

The name is listed as trademarked in the documentation, but USPTO search does not show such registered trademark for fire software.

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.

See also

Links to other articles on this wiki.

External links