A fire in which the local and/or topographic winds have the overriding control on the rate of spread and growth of a fire. The power of the wind is greater than the power of the fire
US Forest Service, Glossary of Fire Behavior & Fire Weather Terms, Washington, D.C., USA 2010. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/fire_glossary.htm, (For Fr - Amer) {505}