"fire load" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fire loads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fire load (plural fire loads)
  1. The anticipated amount of wildfire control necessary in a given period and region, based on the number of current fires, the probable number of new fires, and their anticipated intensity. Categories (topical): Firefighting
    Sense id: en-fire_load-en-noun-c-PF98p4 Disambiguation of Firefighting: 69 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 75 25 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 78 22
  2. The quantity of combustible matter in a given area, or the quantity of heat that can be generated by its combustion. Translations (quantity of combustible matter): Brandlast [feminine] (German), 화재하중 (hwajaehajung) (Korean)
    Sense id: en-fire_load-en-noun-lArUgKaB Disambiguation of 'quantity of combustible matter': 16 84

Inflected forms

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