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This analysis reports a new method to measure fire danger using relative humidity, highlighting its importance for forest protection.
It has long been known that there is a definite relationship between relative humidity and forest inflammability. Foresters have made many attempts to forecast fire behavior, using humidity observations. The method which is described herewith makes use of the cumulative excesses and deficiencies of relative humidity to measure fire danger and cost of extinction. It should be valuable to officers charged with forest protection, and particularly to general administrative officers in the financial management of units in which fire control is a special problem.
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H. M. Shank (1935) studied this question.
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