Burn Winter 4 plot: 1987

Previous | Next

Below are Fuel Load and Fire Behavior data for the Burn Winter 4 plot (a plot that is burned every fourth dormant season) for the first prescribed burn, on March 26, 1986. To view data for the next date in the series (1990), click Next.

Photo of Burn Winter 4 plot in July 1987, one year after the first burn on 3/26/86.

BehavePlus Inputs (from 1985, pre-burn sampling)
Behave Input	Fuel Load
1 hr fuel load (tons/acre)	4.84
10 hr fuel load (tons/acre)	0.50
100 hr fuel load (tons/acre)	0.25
live woody fuel load (tons/acre)	0.62
fuel bed depth (ft)	0.51

Table of Fuel loads of Burn Winter 4 plot from 1985 (pre-burn) sampling.
Litter was not separated into hour-classes this sampling year; 10- and 100-hr fuel
loads are estimates based upon "Fire Regimes of Cape Cod National Seashore.
USDI/NPS North Atlantic Region Office of Scientific Studies Report OSS 83-1"
by Patterson, W. A. III, K. E. Saunders and L. J. Horton. 1984. Fuel bed depth is an average of 5 control plots; Burn Winter 4 plot fuel depth was not sampled pre-treatment.

Observed Fire Behavior from 3/26/86 prescribed burn
Dry Bulb Temperature (°F)	64
Wind Speed (mph)	7
Relative Humidity (%)	53
Flame length (ft)	4.8
Rate of Spread (ft/min)	14

Table of Observed Fire Behavior from the first prescribed burn of Burn Winter 4 plot, on 3/26/86.

Previous | Next

Back to Burn Winter 4 Main Page | Back to Cape Cod Main Page