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Increasing the pace and scale of restoration on the landscape will require
using a variety of tools to accomplish restoration targets. The use of
prescribed fire and managed wildfires, where appropriate, can contribute to
the restoration need. This is particularly true where fires burn at low and
moderate severity, which we are referring to as “functional fire”. Functional
fire is when fire burns in an ecologically beneficial and socially acceptable
way, perpetuating landscape heterogeneity and rarely threatening human safety
or infrastructure.

The Functional Fire Element is described by seven metrics in the RRK, many of
which are highly related. Resilience at the element level is represented by
the average condition scores of two metrics (indicated by asterisks): mean
percent fire return interval departure (FRID) since 1970 and time since last
fire, and the condition scores for each of the metrics are averaged to derive
a condition score for the species diversity element.

* Metric Name: Element Representation: Functional Fire  

* Unit Of Measure: Condition score, +1 to -1  

* Translation: Where is fire functioning as a constructive disturbance process?