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Table 2 Error statistics associated with the prediction of wildfire data by the fuel type–specific rate of fire spread models

From: The 10% wind speed rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in forests and shrublands

Fuel type

MAE (km h−1)

MAPE (%)

MBE (km h−1)

Reference for the model

Conifer forests1

0.89

52

0.4

Cruz et al. (2005)

Dry eucalypt forests

1.58

54

0.4

Cheney et al. (2012)

Temperate shrublands

0.55

33

0.1

Anderson et al. (2015)

  1. MAE mean absolute error, MAPE mean absolute percentage error, MBE mean bias error
  2. 1It is assumed that all the wildfires exhibited a fully developed crowning type of fire behaviour
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Annals of Forest Science

ISSN: 1297-966X