Umpqua Fire Danger Operating Plan

South Umpqua Fire Danger Rating Area

Fuel Model: Y
RAWS: 353040
Fire Weather Zones: ORZ617
Historic Data Years: 2000-2021
Description: The South Umpqua FDRA is the Tiller RD boundary and is warmer, drier, and vegetation is unique compared to other Umpqua FDRAs with a relatively large component of ponderosa pine and incense cedar BpS. Buckeye is the only RAWS for this FDRA.

SFDI: Jolly, W. Matt; Freeborn, Patrick H.; Page, Wesley G.; Butler, Bret W. 2019. Severe Fire Danger Index: A forecastable metric to inform firefighter and community wildfire risk management. Fire. 2: 47.
PV: Experimental replacement for the NFDRS 1978 Oregon and Washington Precaution Value, testing fire season 2022.

FDRA fire history data.
Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6

FDRA MODIS historical data.
Weather and NFDRS thresholds (median) associated with >= 10 MODIS on the same day. If no chart is displayed below there were no historical days during the period that met the criteria.