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In wildland fire science, a crown fire is one that advances through the canopy of trees rather than only along the surface, driven upward from the ground by ladder fuels and sustained by the heat of the surface fire beneath it. Van Wagner's 1977 Conditions for the start and spread of crown fire set out the thresholds that decide whether a surface fire climbs into the crowns and whether a crown fire, once started, can keep spreading: a critical surface intensity to initiate crowning and a minimum spread rate and canopy bulk density to sustain it. The referent is the canopy-borne regime of a forest fire, the most intense and fastest-spreading, classified as passive, active, or independent by how strongly it couples to the surface fire below.[1]
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