NWFSC Fire Facts: What is? Fuel Moisture Content

TitleNWFSC Fire Facts: What is? Fuel Moisture Content
Publication TypeReport
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsConsortium, NWFire Scien
Series TitleNWFSC Fire Facts
Document Number#12
Date PublishedFall 2016
Keywordsextension publications and factsheets, Fire Facts, fuel moisture content
Abstract

Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a measure of the amount of water in a fuel, such as vegetation, available to a fire, and is expressed as a percent of the dry weight of that specific fuel. Read more at, Fire Facts: What is? Fuel Moisture Content