Forecasting the Impacts of Wildland Fires

We utilize Hi-Res, a regional forecasting system which provides local air quality forecasts for the metro Atlanta area since 2006, to predict the air quality impacts from wildland fires. As extensions to the Hi-Res system, the Consume and FEPS models are used to estimate the fire emissions from potential fire events. Brute-force or DDM methods are used to calculate the air quality contributions from the fires. We have tested this tool to predict air quality impacts from Jasper County prescribed fires on February 28, 2007 and the Georgia-Florida wildfires which occurred during April-May, 2007