NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire

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Terminology & operational doctrine

NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire

National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
Scope

Approved wildland-fire terminology used to standardize operational language across participating agencies.

Strong use

Defining containment, control line, fire behaviour, fuels, operations and incident-management terminology.

Evidence limits

Definitions support common language but do not replace incident-specific operating procedures, jurisdictional policy or engineering calculation.

Source policy: Tecnobosque identifies what a source can support and what it cannot. A link to an authoritative source does not transfer authority to Tecnobosque and does not remove the need to preserve publication time, version and incident context.