Tools & Services

Products

• New Zealand Fire Behaviour Prediction Manual - The Manual for Predicting Fire Behaviour in New Zealand Fuels represents the current state of knowledge with respect to predicting fire behaviour in New Zealand. 
  
• New Zealand 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 Forms -  A number of blank worksheets and worked examples of fireline weather, fire behaviour observation and prediction forms are ready for download. These sheets were used in the recent Intermediate Fire Behaviour and Fire Behaviour Forecasting Courses.

Training

The research group provides fire behaviour training in conjunction with the National Rural Fire Authority.  These courses provide rural fire personnel from the Department of Conservation, district councils, the New Zealand Fire Service, forest companies, and New Zealand Defence Force with an in-depth knowledge of fire behaviour in the New Zealand context, from basic understanding of combustion to the highly complex interactions of fuel, topography and atmosphere at the landscape scale.

Training is conducted by experienced researchers who understand fire behaviour as well as the issues faced by fire managers, from questions of tactics and strategy in fire suppression to prescribed fire practices in land management. Two courses currently offered in New Zealand are the Intermediate Fire Behaviour Course and the Fire Behaviour Forecasting Course.

For further information and course schedules, please contact the National Rural Fire Authority.