The Forest fire weather index (FWI) is an estimation of the risk of wildfire computed by Météo France and the Meteorological Service of Canada. Its name in French is indice forêt météo (IFM). It was introduced in France in 1992 but is based on a Canadian empirical model developed and widely used since 1976.
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