Vertical Fuel Continuity

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Wildfire Knowledge Graph · Fuels & Weather

Working definition

The vertical connection of fuels that can allow fire to move from surface vegetation into shrubs, lower branches and canopy fuels.

In plain language

The vertical connection of fuels that can allow fire to move from surface vegetation into shrubs, lower branches and canopy fuels.

Why it matters

Vertical Fuel Continuity is useful because it separates one specific part of wildfire behaviour, exposure, operations or evidence from nearby concepts that can otherwise be mixed together.

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Tecnobosque explanation reviewed 12 September 2026. Source definitions are authoritative within their stated jurisdiction; the explanatory text above is an independent technical synthesis.