# Presentation: 167365

## Reporting Fires and Acres in theFAMWEB Situation Report Program 

*A How To Guide*

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## Daily Fire Statistics Page

- Only ***current fire activity ***is entered in the Daily Fire Statistics page of the Situation Report. ***Never reconcile fires and acres for the year on this page.***

**Notes:**
	Report only current fire activity on this page of the situation report. Don’t use this page to adjust or reconcile cumulative or year-to-date fire numbers. The appropriate place to adjust errors in cumulative or year-to-date numbers is the YTD Statistics page. Fires and acres reported on this page will be counted on the Fires and Acres Yesterday table of the IMSR.
	If you need to adjust year-to-date fire and acre numbers, the YTD Statistics page of the program is the appropriate place to do this. Don’t adjust year-to-date numbers on the Daily Fire Statistics page of the program. Doing so will show incorrect year-to-date fires and acres on Yesterday’s Fires and Acres table of the IMSR.
	For example, if you need to adjust year-to-date fires and acres for an agency because some fires that occurred last month were not reported in the Situation Report, don’t enter the numbers on this page. Enter corrections on the YTD Statistics page of the program. Report on the Daily Fire Statistics only those fires and acres that occurred during the current reporting period (either daily or weekly depending on whether you’re in daily or weekly reporting).

## Daily Fire Statistics Page 

- If an ICS-209 report is completed for a large fire, the fire and its acres must be entered into the Daily Fire Statistics page of the Sit Report program. This is not done automatically by the Sit/209 program.

## Daily Fire Statistics Page

- Numbers from the Daily Fire Statistics page of the Situation Report for every reporting unit (previous slide) are tabulated by _Geographic  Area_ and _agency_ in this table.
- This table becomes the record for daily fire activity for all national fire reporting.

**Notes:**
	Units submit situation reports each day during fire season. That data is used for all national fire reporting and becomes part of the historical record. Incorrect reporting of fires and acres by a single unit or state will result in inaccurate reporting of national fire activity.

## Year-To-Date Statistics Page 

- The _Year-to-Date Statistics_ page of the Situation Report displays calendar year totals for each agency within a reporting unit. *Any changes to correct year-to-date errors in fire numbers must be made on this page, not on the *_*Daily Fire Statistics*_* page. *

**Notes:**
	The correct way to reconcile errors in year-to-date fire and acre numbers is to enter the correct numbers in the white blocks on this page of the Situation Report. It’s important to try to reconcile Situation Report year-to-date numbers with official fire reports for each agency within the reporting unit so that the year-to-date numbers published in the IMSR match agency fire report numbers.
	For example: The BLM suppresses a lightning fire that is estimated at 1,000 acres – all of it on BLM land. On that night’s Situation Report, the dispatcher enters 1,000 acres belonging to the BLM on the Daily Fire Statistics page of the Situation Report. The 1,000 acres is automatically added to the year-to-date totals for the BLM on the YTD Statistics page. Two days later the fire is mapped at only 600 acres, of which 300 acres turns out to be state land, and 300 acres is BLM land. When a change like this occurs, the person submitting the Situation Report needs to correct the year-to-date totals on the YTD Statistics page by subtracting 700 acres from the BLM acres block, and adding 300 acres to the state land data block of the report. If the cause of the fire was initially reported as lightning, but later was determined to be human, then the fire and its acres need to be credited to the human column and subtracted from the lightning column.
	Never use the Daily Fire Statistics page of the Situation Report to make cumulative or year-to-date changes to fire totals after the original Situation Report has already been submitted. If changes are needed to correct year-to-date numbers, follow the procedure below.
	After making year-to-date changes in numbers, the changes will not show up in the gray area portion (the portion that is not editable) of the page until the following day. However, generating a report from the Reports option of the Sit/209 program will show any corrections made on the Year-to-Date page. If you need to see the changes made to the Year-to-Date Statistics page right away, go into the Situation Report program (before making any edits) using the previous day’s date; make the corrections to the YTD Statistics and submit all pages. Exit the program, then re-enter the program using the current day’s date. Any changes made using the previous day’s date should now appear in both the gray and white areas.

## IMSR - Year-To-Date Statistics 

- Numbers from the YTD Statistics page of the Situation Report are tabulated by _Geographic  Area_ and _agency_ in this table.
- This table becomes the record for year-to-date fire activity for all national fire reporting.

**Notes:**
	 The FAMWEB system automatically tabulates all reporting unit numbers by geographic area and agency to create the tables that appear in the IMSR. Errors in current activity numbers and year-to-date numbers cannot be reconciled, or even verified, at the national level. These numbers are also used in official reports issued by the National Interagency Fire Center, including the national annual Statistics and Summary report. Incorrect or incomplete reporting by units will be reflected in these reports.

## Fire and Acre Reporting Tips

-   Don’t make year-to-date adjustments in fire and acre numbers in the _Daily Fire Statistics_ page of the Sit program. Enter only *current* fire and acre information in the _Daily Fire Statistics_ page  of the Sit Report.
-   When reconciling year-to-date fire and acre numbers in the Situation report, enter any corrections in the _YTD Statistics_ page of the Sit program.
-   Regularly reconcile fires and acres in the Sit Report program to maintain correct numbers in the FAMWEB database. Don’t wait until the end of fire season to reconcile incorrect fire and acre numbers on the Situation Report.