crown fire

Once started, they are very difficult to control since wind plays an important role in crown fires.

It started with a lighting strike which caused a crown fire.

When the fire got into the park, it was for the most part not a crown fire.

What is the difference between a surface forest fire and a crown fire?

He witnessed the crown fire sweeping the Earth before the signal gave out.

Crown fires scarred or killed a huge number of trees.

Crown fires accounted for about 41 percent of all the area that burned.

These fine fuels add to the probability of crown fires, which are the most difficult to suppress.

Crown fires, the most dangerous type of bushfire, do not occur often.

Crown fires will burn in the tops of shrubs and trees.

“And crown fires happen faster than expected” in these largely dead forests, he added.

This was definitely one lulu of a crown fire.

Crown fires could be especially bad for Yellowstone's threatened grizzly bear.

This ensured that there was a low intensity burn, and therefore little danger of a crown fire developing.

A crown fire can send flames to at least twice the height of a mature conifer stand.

This reduces the probability of a fast moving crown fire of extreme intensity.

The idea is to increase the distance between trees to prevent the so-called "crown fires," which are virtually impossible for firefighters to put out.

The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active.

A comprehensive suite of research projects studying crown fire behavior in the boreal forest is turning up some interesting results.

They can set experimental crown fires to study their effects, as was done recently in"journal" Canada (Figure 1).

Although the tree is killed by hot, stand-replacing crown fire, it spreads rapidly after lower intensity burns.

Assessment of crown fire potential requires quantification of canopy fuels.

A crown fire developed almost immediately.

As a general rule, palace gossip spreads faster than a crown fire in a pinewood," he said. "

The resinous bark is capable of igniting quickly, and a crown fire will almost certainly kill the tree.