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Fire Weather

Professional Competency Units


Required for all NWS personnel who issue Fire Weather Products

1. Develop and Maintain Customer Awareness and Partnerships
2. Assess the Fire Environment.
3. Make the Warning Decision
4. Provide Fire Weather Products and Services


Required for IMETs, Deployment Ready Fire Weather Meteorologists and Fire Weather Program Leaders Suggested for NWS personnel who issue Fire Weather Products (regional discretion)

5. Strategic and Tactical Meteorological Support to Fire Operations
6. Management of Office Fire Weather Programs


Required for IMETs

7. Onsite Weather Support and IMET Operations

Please use links on top for descriptions of the job competencies linked to each Professional Competency Unit (PCU) associated with core fire weather skills. Several instructional components for each PCU, with associated abilities and job skills are listed. Gap analysis will provide additional components, abilities and job skills derived from these broad categories