Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

In this paper, avoiding the abstruse equations, a simple model is considered. Although the model perhaps exists some discrepancies with actual condition, the result of estimation can explain some characteristics of fire gust phenomenon during the large forest fires. The paper also introduces some rules of fireband spotting which are being studied and presents a method to predict the spotting distance. To illustrate how to use the method, some examples are given. The calculating results tally with some observations in large fires and provide a supplement or reference to the forest fire management.