USDA Forest Service 

 Research Paper INT-226 

 July 1979 



ESTIMATING LIVE FUEL MOISTURE FOR THE 

 1978 NATIONAL FIRE DANGER RATING SYSTEM 



Robert E. Burgan 



INTERMOUNTAIN FOREST AND RANGE EXPERIMENT STATION 



Forest Service 

 U.S. Departmeat of Agriculture 

 Ogden, Utah 84401 



