This dataset presents raw experimental data from the work, “Thermal characterization of firebrand piles” by Raquel Hakes, Hamed Salehizadeh, Matthew Weston-Dawkes, and Michael J Gollner in the Fire Safety Journal. Small-scale experiments designed to capture heating from firebrand piles and to describe the process of ignition were conducted using laboratory-fabricated cylindrical wooden firebrands. Two heat flux measurement methods were compared, and the influences of firebrand diameter, pile mass, and wind on heating from firebrand piles were explored. Here you will find data separated by whether or not external wind is applied. "Ambient data" contains data for tests taken under ambient conditions, with no forced flow. "Wind data" contains data for tests taken under a 1.84 m/s forced flow. For both wind speeds (0 m/s and 1.84 m/s), data was taken with an array of 16 thin-skin calorimeters and a single water-cooled heat flux gauge. Additionally, you will find a schematic top-view of the thin-skin calorimeter array indicating the number assigned to individual thin-skins.

This research was funded by the United States Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fire Research Grant Program under financial assistance awards 60NANB15D358, 70NANB16H284 and 70NANB17H288.