State Forest Service — Assistant Conservator of Forests (state PSC exams) · India · State Public Service Commissions (e.g. TNPSC, MPPSC, UPPSC, HPPSC, KPSC, MPSC)
Original practice questions written to the published syllabus · not past papersHow forest fires start and spread, their ecological roles and impacts, and how fire is prevented, detected, suppressed and used deliberately.
In the exams: ICAR AICE-JRF 59 Unit 8 (forest fires: causes, types, impacts, control); IFoS Forestry Paper II Section B (forest protection); NWCG qualifications (USA)
State Forest Service, Range Forest Officer and Forester exams, India
Fire lines and their maintenance, controlled and early burning, fire watchers and organisation, the fire season and types of fire.
How our questions for State Forest Service spread across the units of Forest Fire Science & Management. Difficulty: 19 easy, 18 medium, 0 hard.
| Fuels: types, loads and moisture | 4 | |
| Types of fire: ground, surface, crown | 4 | |
| Fire weather and fire danger rating | 4 | |
| Fire triangle and combustion | 3 | |
| Fire behaviour: rate of spread, intensity, flame length | 3 | |
| Fire prevention and fire lines | 3 | |
| Detection: lookouts, satellites, early warning | 3 | |
| Suppression methods and organisation (Incident Command System) | 3 | |
| Prescribed burning and controlled burning | 3 | |
| Community-based fire management | 3 | |
| Fire ecology and fire-adapted ecosystems | 2 | |
| Post-fire assessment and rehabilitation | 2 |
Choose an answer, then open the working. Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why the others are not.
The three elements of the fire triangle are:
C. Fuel, oxygen and heat
Remove any one and the fire goes out. Fuel, weather and topography form the fire behaviour triangle.
Which dead fuels belong to the 1-hour timelag class?
D. Grass, needles and twigs under about 0.6 cm
1-h fuels respond to humidity within hours and drive fire spread.
The most common type of forest fire in India is the:
C. Surface fire
Most Indian forest fires burn litter, grass and undergrowth.
In most of India, fire danger peaks during:
B. The hot, dry pre-monsoon months
Roughly March to May, with dry litter, low humidity and strong winds.
Fire danger ratings are used mainly to:
C. Set readiness, restrictions and warnings
They guide preparedness, burning bans and resource positioning.
Why are fire lines in India cleared and burned before the fire season?
B. So the cleared strip cannot itself carry fire
Burning the debris removes fuel from the strip.
Lookout towers locate fires by:
D. Cross-bearings from two or more towers
Intersecting bearings fix the position.
Direct attack means working:
D. At the fire edge
Suitable for low-intensity fires.
Mop-up means:
C. Putting out remaining burning material
It prevents re-ignition.
Community-based fire management mainly involves:
D. Local people in prevention, detection and suppression
Communities are present, knowledgeable and interested in forest products.
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