Do the desk work now

Part 1 is a set of lookups that take an afternoon and do not require a fire to be useful.¹ Doing them in advance means that if one comes, you already know what you are dealing with.

• Your vegetation type (1.2) — the EVC and division your block sits in, and the benchmark list of what belongs there.
• Your fire history (1.3) — every fire on the record, and the gaps between them.
• Your tolerable fire intervals (1.4) — the minimum and maximum your vegetation can take.
• Your growth stage (2.1) — how long since the last fire, and what that means for what is there now.

Then sort your species list

Take the list from 6.1 and put every species into a fire-response group — resprouter, seeder, or fire-cued (2.2 explains the groups). The seeders are your watch list.²³

Now put that against your fire history. If the gap since your last fire is shorter than the minimum interval for your vegetation, the seeders on your list are the species at risk, and you know which ones to look for before anything happens rather than afterwards.