An interactive experiment in growth, ignition, and chaos
Welcome to version 1 of my wildland fire simulation. While this is an early version, it already captures several powerful and unintuitive dynamics found in real fire systems.
Under default settings, many small fires appear alongside rare but catastrophic events. This reflects real fire regimes shaped by fuel accumulation.
Increasing ignition frequency behaves like prescribed burns. Fires become more frequent but smaller. Reducing vegetation regrowth similarly limits large-scale events.
Watch for unburned islands inside large fires. These persist until fire propagation overwhelms local variation.
Change one parameter at a time and observe how the system responds. The most interesting behaviors emerge from subtle adjustments.