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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 [aut, cre], Davide Ascoli [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

Downloads:

Package source:	Rothermel_1.4.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: Rothermel_1.4.1.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: Rothermel_1.4.1.zip
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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They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.