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🔥 Fire Safety for UK Apiaries and Honey Houses

An interactive 3D heathland wildfire-spread model showing how wind, vegetation dryness and firebreaks determine whether a stray ember reaches an apiary or honey house.

Fire & Combustion3DAdvanced60 FPS🔥 Fire 💨 Air & Wind

A cell-by-cell wildfire-spread model of a heathland apiary and honey house, showing how a single spark from a smoker or an electrical fault can turn into a fast-moving fire — and how wind, dry vegetation and a cleared firebreak change the outcome.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each heather cell ignites its unburned neighbours with a probability driven by vegetation dryness and biased downwind by wind speed. A cleared firebreak strip removes fuel in a band ahead of the apiary, showing how width alone can stop or fail to stop a front.

🎮 How to Use

Choose an ignition source (dropped smoker spark or honey house electrical fault), set wind speed, vegetation dryness and firebreak width, then press Ignite. Watch whether the fire reaches the hives or honey house before burning out.

💡 Did You Know?

UK fire and beekeeping guidance recommends a mown or bare-earth margin of at least 2–4m around apiaries sited on heath or moorland, plus keeping smoker fuel, wax and honey house electrics well clear of dry vegetation during fire-risk periods.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D heathland wildfire-spread model showing how wind, vegetation dryness and firebreaks determine whether a stray ember reaches an apiary or honey house.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install