Rothermel: Surface Fire Spread Model

Implements the surface fire spread model of Rothermel (1972) <doi:10.2737/INT-RP-115> in R. Additional utilities support uncertainty propagation, selection among standard fuel models, optimization of fuel model parameters by genetic algorithms, and example datasets.

Version: 1.4.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: GA (≥ 3.2.0), ftsa (≥ 3.1)
Suggests: spelling
Published: 2026-09-10
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rothermel
Author: Giorgio Vacchiano ORCID iD [aut, cre], Davide Ascoli ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Giorgio Vacchiano <gvacchiano at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: Rothermel citation info
CRAN checks: Rothermel results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Rothermel.html , Rothermel.pdf

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Package source: Rothermel_1.4.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Rothermel_1.4.1.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): Rothermel_1.4.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Rothermel_1.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Rothermel_1.4.1.tgz
Old sources: Rothermel archive

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