1.1. Aim of the guide

heterogeneity of models and standards that are available are adapted to the past problems, challenges, context and needs. However, in front of shifting fire problems, uncertainties, fast-paced changes, and complex fire behaviour there is the challenge to enhance the transference of best practices and to boost the cooperation across EU countries and globally.

Building a common framework can facilitate the harmonization of different models, facilitating benchmarking and interoperability. In face of a changing global environment, the understanding of the available ‘building blocks’ of FAA and its linkage with the existent challenges (for which these ‘building blocks’ have been designed) facilitates the fast adaptation to the ‘new’ challenges in wildfire management.

Precisely for this reason, in this guideline we will build a common framework to understand the different FAA profiles, tasks, activities, processes, tools and products, allowing each organisation to self-classify the fire analysis capacities and benchmark tasks, activities, processes, tools or products from others.

1.1 Aim of the guide

This Guide describes the Fire Analyst capacities during incident management, relating them to the scope and complexity of decision-making, describing the set of activities and tasks developed, and giving examples of processes, tools and products developed.

This guide is not intended to impose a specific methodology or to generate an exhaustive list of tools and resources, but rather facilitates the creation of a framework for harmonization of analysis at the European level. The guide aims to build a common framework and presents different FAA profiles, tasks, activities, processes, tools and products, allowing each organisation to self-classify its fire analysis capacities and benchmark tasks, activities, processes, tools or products from others.

The content of this guide can also help to identify the difference between vegetation fire analysis and other analysis from other disciplines that are equally necessary and useful, and contribute to some parts of the fire analysis. However, the guide does not include the possible existent contributions of forest fire analysis. It can also serve to identify areas of potential growth within fire analysis for organisations, individuals and teams..