FOREST SERVICE HANDBOOK
MISSOULA, MONTANA

TITLE FSH 5109.14 - INDIVIDUAL FIRE REPORT HANDBOOK, FORM FS-5100-29

Region 1 Supplement No. 5109.14-93-2

Effective November 18, 1993

POSTING NOTICE:  Supplements to this title are numbered consecutively by handbook number and calendar year.  Post by document name.  Remove entire document and replace with this supplement.  Retain this transmittal as the first page of this document.  The last supplement to this title was 5109.14-93-1, dated 4/30/93.

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(Number of Pages)

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Digest:  

2.21 - Corrects special codes (item 28) for fires occurring in areas approved for prescribed natural fire.

DAVID F. JOLLY
Regional Forester

FSH 5109.14 - INDIVIDUAL FIRE REPORT HANDBOOK, FORM FS-5100-29
R-1 SUPPLEMENT 5109.14-93-2
EFFECTIVE 11/18/93

CHAPTER 2 - REPORT PREPARATION

2.21 - Specific Item Instructions

IDENTIFICATION

1.  Forest and District Identification Numbers

Beaverhead	02	Deerlodge	09	Lewis & Clark	15
Dillon	01	Deerlodge RD 	01	Rocky Mountain	01
Wise River	02	Jefferson	02	Judith	04
Wisdom 	03	Philipsburg	03	Musselshell	06
Sheridan 	06	Butte	04	Kings Hill 	07
Madison 	07

Bitterroot	03	Flathead	10	Lolo	16
Stevensville	01	Swan Lake	01	Missoula	03
Darby	02	Spotted Bear	04	Ninemile	04
West Fork	04	Hungry Horse	06	Plains	05
		Glacier View	07	Seeley Lake	06
Idaho Panhandle	04 	Tally Lake	08	Superior	07
Wallace	01			Thompson Falls	08
Avery	02	Gallatin	11
Fernan	03	Big Timber	01	Nezperce	17
St. Maries	04	Livingston	02	Salmon River	01
Sandpoint 	06	Gardiner	03	Clearwater 	04
Bonners Ferry	07	Bozeman	06	Red River 	05
Priest Lake	08	Hebgen Lake	07	Moose Creek	06
Red Ives 	09			Selway	07
		Helena	12	Elk City	08
Clearwater 	05	Townsend	01
Pierce	01	Helena  	02
Palouse 	02	Lincoln  	04
North Fork 	03
Lochsa	05	Kootenai	14
Powell	06	Rexford  	01
		Yaak	02
Custer     	08	Fortine  	03
Sheyenne  	01	Troy    	04
Sioux     	03	Libby   	05
Ashland/Ft. Howes	04	Fisher River	06
Grand River	06    
Medora    	07
McKenzie  	08

3.  Ownership at Origin/State at Origin.  All National Forest lands outside the Forest's protection boundary will be coded 1.

4.  Fire Management Analysis Zone.  Use the FMAZ designator used during the NFMAS process on the Forest.  FMAZ1 would be coded 1, FMAZ2 would be coded 2, etc.  For Forest Service fires occurring outside assigned FMAZ's (such as areas protected by the State), assigned the fire to 99.  This will be the default code which indicates the fire is outside the area used for NFMAS.  (Reference item 19 to NVC values for these types of fires.)

10.  Statistical Cause.  Reference items 28 (Special Codes) for fires coded with statistical cause codes 2, 5, 6, and 9.

Lighting (code 1) -- Self explanatory.

Equipment Use (code 2) -- Wildfires caused by any and all mechanical equipment, other than railroad operations.  Includes, but is not limited to, exhaust or other sparks, burning vehicles, cable friction, welding, cutting torches, etc.  Reference Item 28.

Smoking  (code 3) -- Wildfires caused by smokers.  Includes fires that started by discarded matches, cigarettes, cigars, or pipe heel.  Smoker fires, started by children (less than 12 years old), should be classed under the category "children;" railroad right-of-way campfires, started by railroad employees, should be classed under the category "railroad."  

Campfire (code 4) -- Wildfires resulting from a fire started for cooking, heating, or providing light or warmth.  Railroad right-of-way campfires, started by railroad employees, should be classed under the category "railroad."   Reference Item 28.

Debris Burning (code 5) -- Wildfires spreading from land clearing operations, burning trash, dumps, range stubble, meadow, rights-of-way, logging slash, or other prescribed burning.  Escaped railroad right-of-way burning fires, started by railroad employees, should be classed under the category "railroad."  Reference Item 28.

Railroad (code 6) -- Wildfires caused by railroad operations including the burning of rights-of-way and ties, employee smoking and campfires, exhaust, brakeshoes, track welding and grinding operations, etc.  Reference Item 28.

Arson (code 7) -- Wildfires willfully set to burn or spread to vegetation or property not owned or controlled by the individual, and without consent of owner or agent.  Exclude negligent debris burning fires.  Reference Item 28.

Children (code 8) -- Wildfires started by children less than 12 years old.  Includes fires started by fireworks, playing with matches, smoking, campfires, etc.

Miscellaneous (code 9) -- A wildfire that cannot be property classified under other causes.  Includes fires started by powerlines, blasting, fireworks (other than children), and structure fires.  Reference Item 28.

OCCURRENCE

11.  Unplanned Ignition Designated as Prescribed Fire.  It is conceivable that a fire coded Y (yes, for unplanned ignition) could later become a wildfire.  Should this occur, it is necessary to prepare a new 5100-29 when the prescribed fire is declared a wildfire.  In order to tie the two reports together, a notation must be made in item 28 (Special Codes) of the original unplanned ignition fire report.  The report is to be coded as follows:

       WF/XXX     where XXX equals the new SO number
                            assigned to the fire

DESCRIPTION

18.  Estimated FFF Costs.  Make sure only the FFF costs are reported.  Do not include FFP costs.  

19.  FMAZ NVC Per Acre.  Positive NVC values will be coded 0 (zero).  Negative NVC values will be coded from the table below as they appear.

For fires coded 99 in item 4 (Fire Management Analysis Zone), the Forest will have to obtain NVC data from an adjacent FMAZ which best represents the specific fire.

The following NVC's are the result of 1990 NFMAS analyses:

Forest	FIL 1	FIL 2	FIL 3	FIL 4	FIL 5	FIL 6
Beaverhead
FMAZ1	20	107
FMAZ2	20	107
FMAZ3	20	107
FMAZ4	20	107
FMAZ5	20	107
FMAZ7	20	107

Forest	FIL 1	FIL 2	FIL 3	FIL 4	FIL 5	FIL 6

Bitterroot
FMAZ1	7	14	31
FMAZ3	4	8	16
FMAZ4	4	15	37
FMAZ5	27	518	1095
FMAZ7	60	504	827

Clearwater
FMAZ2	0	43	53
FMAZ3	0	208	254	292	351
FMAZ4	0	38	38
FMAZ5	0	310	365	413	482
FMAZ6	0	193	224	245	303

Custer
FMAZ1	10	80	343
FMAZ2	12	104	351
FMAZ3	0	0	1
FMAZ4	12	85	348
FMAZ5	8	18	18
FMAZ6	6	12	12

Deerlodge
FMAZ1	34	37	128
FMAZ2	34	37	128
FMAZ3	34	37	128
FMAZ4	34	37	128
FMAZ5	34	37	128
FMAZ7	34	37	128

Flathead
FMAZ1	22	23	741
FMAZ2	39	42	906
FMAZ3	15	15
FMAZ4		3
FMAZ5	22	28	489

Gallatin
FMAZ1	91	153	436
FMAZ2	89	192	548
FMAZ3	179	287	586
FMAZ4	0	0	0
FMAZ5	49	114	421
FMAZ6	239	597

Helena
FMAZ1	3	42	354	404
FMAZ2	3 	87	432	483
FMAZ3	3	87	432	483
FMAZ4	2	54	361
FMAZ5	3	43	238
FMAZ7	3	42	354	404
FMAZ8	3	87	432	483

Idaho Panhandle
FMAZ1	73	111	138	179
FMAZ2	199	283	364	771
FMAZ3	156	337	455	552
FMAZ4	229	328	424	889
FMAZ5	211	296	375	796

Kootenai
FMAZ1	84	111	163	386
FMAZ2	150	210
FMAZ3	79	112	131	297	382	467
FMAZ4	89	137
FMAZ5	22	30	30
FMAZ6	97	98	92	255	307	359

Lewis and Clark
FMAZ1	0	0	25
FMAZ2	0	0	0
FMAZ3	0	0	0
FMAZ4	0	0	0

Lolo       
FMAZ1	27	41	100	176	357	416
FMAZ2	33	65	133	285	486	513
FMAZ3	33	60	115	245	403	458
FMAZ4	41	57	57	113	213	265
FMAZ5	28	45	46	82	145	177
FMAZ6	16	38	41	61	87	97
FMAZ7	0	0	0	0	2	8

Nezperce
FMAZ1	0	0	1
FMAZ2	2	1	1
FMAZ3	11	43	184	184	186
FMAZ4	0	112	20	201
FMAZ5	0	74	252	252

23.  Fire Intensity Level.  Initial attack Incident Commander should make not of the fire activity (flame length at head of fire) when he or she arrives at the fire.

24.  Representative Weather Station.  Code the closest weather station to the fire.

25.  Fuel Model/Cover Type.  Use the following codes to identify general cover types in which the fire burned during initial attack.

	Code
Douglas-fir
seedling-sapling	01
pole timber	02
mature (uncut)	03
cutover (slash disposal completed)	04
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	05
thinning slash	06

Larch/Douglas-fir
seedling-sapling	11
pole timber	12
mature (uncut)	13
cutover (slash disposal completed)	14
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	15
thinning slash	16

Grand fir/larch/Douglas-fir
seedling-sapling	21
pole timber	22
mature (uncut)	23
cutover (slash disposal completed)	24
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	25
thinning slash	26

Ponderosa pine
seedling-sapling	31
pole timber	32
mature (uncut)	33
cutover (slash disposal completed)	34
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	35
thinning slash	36

Ponderosa/larch/Douglas-fir
seedling-sapling	41
pole timber	42
mature (uncut)	43
cutover (slash disposal completed)	44
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	45
thinning slash	46

Western white pine
seedling-sapling	51
pole timber	52
mature (uncut)	53
cutover (slash disposal completed)	54
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	55
thinning slash	56

Lodgepole pine
seedling-sapling	61
pole timber	62
mature (uncut)	63
cutover (slash disposal completed)	64
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	65
thinning slash	66

Engelmann spruce
seedling-sapling	71
pole timber	72
mature (uncut)	73
cutover(slash disposal completed)	74
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	75
thinning slash	76

Western cedar/hemlock
seedling-sapling	81
pole timber	82
mature (uncut)	83
cutover (slash disposal completed)	84
cutover (slash disposal incomplete)	85
thinning slash	86

Subalpine	91

Deciduous	92

Brush	93

Grass/weeds	94

Grass/sage	95

OPTIONS

28.  Special Codes.  In order to determine more specific causes of fires occurring in some categories (equipment use, debris burning, railroad, and miscellaneous) special Regional codes have been developed.  Example:  If your Forest has an equipment fire which is caused by powersaw exhaust, the code in item 10 would be 2 and the code in item 28 would be EP/1.

Cause	Special Code, Item 28

      Equipment (code 2)
          Exhaust--power saw	EP/1
          Exhaust--other	EE/2
          Logging line	EL/3
          Other	EO/4
          Oil and gas	EG/5

      Campfire (code 4)
          Cooking fire	CC/1
          Warming fire	CW/2
      
      Debris burning (code 5)
          Trash burning	DT/1
          Field burning	DF/2
          Slash burning (public employee)	DS/3
          Slash burning (other)	DS/4
          Burning dump	DD/5
          Land clearing burn	DL/6
          Other	DO/3

      Railroad (code 6)
          Right of way burning	RR/1
          Brakeshoe	RB/2
          Other	RO/3

      Arson (code 7)
          Grudge fir	AG/1
          Pyro	AP/2
          Job fire	AJ/3

      Miscellaneous (code 9)
          Powerline	MP/1
          Fireworks	MF/2
          Blasting/welding	MB/3
          Aircraft	MA/5
          Burning building	MA/6
          Burning vehicle	MV/7
          Other	MO/4

Use the following codes to identify areas within which prescribed natural fires are approved.  If the area is not approved for prescribed natural fires, use of the special codes is optional.

Beaverhead
Anaconda-Pintler	BH/1
Lee Metcalf	BH/2

Bitterroot
Selway-Bitterroot	BR/1
Anaconda-Pintler	BR/2

Clearwater
Selway-Bitterroot	CW/1

Custer
Absarokee Beartooth	CN/1

Deerlodge
Anaconda-Pintler	DL/1

Flathead
Bob Marshall	FH/1
Great Bear	FH/2
Mission Mountains	FH/3

Gallatin
Absaroka Beartooth	GN/1
Lee Metcalf	GN/2

Helena
Gates of the Mountains	HN/1
Scapegoat	HN/2

Kootenai
Cabinet Mountains	KN/1

Lewis and Clark
Bob Marshall 	LC/1
Scapegoat	LC/2

Lolo
Welcome Creek	LN/1
Rattlesnake	LN/2
Scapegoat	LN/3
Selway-Bitterroot	LN/4

Nez Perce
Gospel Hump	NP/1
Selway-Bitterroot	NP/2
Frank Church/River of No Return	NP/3