Fire Behaviour Toolkit

This user-friendly software package incorporates the fuel and fire behaviour models developed by Scion's Rural Fire Research group. 

 

Fire Behaviour Calculator Screenshot image 

 

The Toolkit is comprised of a number of separate modules, each of which was developed for different purposes and levels of use, including the Fire Behaviour Calculator, Fire Behaviour Worksheet, Firebreak Effectiveness and Fire Intensity/Flame Length calculators, Fire Behaviour Rules of Thumb and Resource Productivity guides.

 

 

Toolkit requirements

The NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit will run on any computer that supports Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The .NET Framework is a development and execution environment that can be used by many Windows-based applications. The .NET Framework comes pre-installed on Windows Vista and can be installed on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.

If not already installed, .NET Framework 2.0 is available for download from the Microsoft website: .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86). The NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit installer will check for .NET presence. The link above contains information on the system requirements to install .NET Framework 2.0 (or refer to the NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit: User Guide and Technical Report for details.

For users with Windows Server 2000 SP4, install KB 835732 before installing .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1.

To install and operate NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit on Windows 98 operating systems, please contact the Scion Rural Fire Research Group for instructions.

In addition, to access some NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit reference material, a PDF viewer is also required.

•         Download updated SOFTWARE Toolkit  (v2)  [1.4 Mb]

•         NZ Fire Behaviour Toolkit User Guide   [862 Kb PDF]