Considering the potential role of wildland fire simulations in decision making, there are needs and opportunities for further enhancement of wildland fire prediction. High-resolution, coupled atmosphere wildfire behavior simulations can be indispensable for prediction and risk assessment and thus aid in wildfire preparedness and response. Wildland fires result from complex interactions among a multitude of physical processes including weather, combustion, hydrology, and the biosphere. Commensurate with their magnitude, the impact of wildland fires on the environment, infrastructure, communities, and health has also increased. Over recent decades, wildland fires worldwide have increased in magnitude.

It was first released in Version 3.2 (April 2010). It is implemented as a physics package with two-way coupling between the fire behavior and the atmospheric environment allowing the latent and sensible heat released by the fire to alter the atmosphere surrounding it, i.e. WRF-Fire is a physics module within WRF ARW that allows users to model the growth of a wildland fire in response to environmental conditions of terrain slope, fuel characteristics, and atmospheric conditions, and the dynamic feedbacks with the atmosphere.

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