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Welcome to the quicfire-tools Documentation!

What is quicfire-tools?

quicfire-tools is a Python package that provides a convenient interface for programmatically creating and managing QUIC-Fire input file decks and processing QUIC-Fire output files into standard Python array data structures.

The goals of quicfire-tools are to:

  1. Make it easy to write Python code to work with QUIC-Fire input and output files.
  2. Unify code, scripts, and workflows across the QUIC-Fire ecosystem into a single package to support the development of new QUIC-Fire tools and applications.
  3. Provide a platform for collaboration among QUIC-Fire developers and users.

What is QUIC-Fire?

QUIC-Fire is a fast-running, coupled fire-atmospheric modeling tool developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory wildland fire behavior prediction and prescribed fire planning. It combines a 3D wind solver (QUIC-URB) with a physics-based cellular automata fire spread model (Fire-CA) to rapidly simulate the complex interactions between fire, fuels, and atmospheric conditions.

Important Licensing Note: QUIC-Fire is a closed-source simulation tool. The maintainers of quicfire-tools are not responsible for QUIC-Fire licensing. Users must obtain QUIC-Fire access through appropriate channels.

Installation

quicfire-tools can be installed using pip or conda.

pip

pip install quicfire-tools

conda

conda install conda-forge::quicfire-tools

Issues

If you encounter any issues with the quicfire-tools package, please submit an issue on the quicfire-tools GitHub repository issues page.