USDA Forest Service 

 Research Paper INT-214 

 August 1978 



FUEL BURNING RATES 

 OF DOWNWARD VERSUS HORIZONTALLY 

 SPREADING FIRES 



William H. Frandsen 

 and 



Robert D. Schuette 



INTERMOUNTAIN FOREST AND RANGE EXPERIMENT STATION 



Forest Service 

 U.S. Department of Agriculture 

 Ogden, Utah 84401 



