Farsite Spot Fire Outputs

There are two Farsite outputs with spot fire information.

Spot Fire Locations

This is a point shapefile of the ember landing locations where new fires were ignited during the Farsite simulation.

Spot Fire List

This is a Comma Separated Value (.CSV) text file containing more information about the spot fire ignited during the Farsite simulation.

The fields are,

• launchTime - simulation time when the ember which started a fire was lofted from a torching tree,
• launchX - X coordinate of the ember launch which started a fire,
• launchY - Y coordinate of the ember launch which started a fire,
• landTime - simulation time when the ember landed, ignition time of the spot fire is controlled by the Spot Delay setting in the Model Settings tab,
• landX - X coordinate of the ember landing which started a fire,
• landY - Y coordinate of the ember landing which started a fire,
• FlightTime - flight time (in minutes) of the ember,
• Distance(m) - ember flight distance in meters,
• Distance(ft) - ember flight distance in feet.

Times are minutes of simulated time from the beginning of the Farsite simulation. Non-burn periods are included in times but no embers are lofted outside the burn periods.