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A wildfire strategy simulation with changing conditions, finite crews, containment lines, firing operations, and thirty authored incidents.
Read slope, wind, and fuel before deciding what can hold.
A wildfire strategy simulation with changing conditions, finite crews, containment lines, firing operations, and thirty authored incidents.
Open the first scenario, read the briefing, place a crew or line from the command bar, then start time and use pause or speed controls to study the changing fire.
Backburn is an educational strategy game, not an operational fire-prediction or emergency-response tool. Follow official authorities during a real wildfire.
No advertisements, subscriptions, consumable currency, paid timers, account, tracking, or developer-operated online service. The full game is included in the paid download.