firefront

English

Alternative forms

  • fire-front, fire front

Etymology

From fire +‎ front.

Noun

firefront (plural firefronts)

  1. The leading edge of a wildfire.
    • 2009 January 22, Matthew Schulz, Anne Wright, “Towns of Woodend, Malmsbury and Taradale under urgent threat from fire”, in Herald Sun‎[1], archived from the original on 2 March 2009:
      “A section of the firefront was stopped when it ran into that part of the forest where all of the light fuel had been burned a few months before,” Mr Dalton said.

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