FIREFLY has been evaluated for the following use cases:

• reduced-scale experimental grass fire (4 m x 4 m), to evaluate the added value of parameter estimation or state estimation – Rochoux et al. (2014, 2015)
• the 2006 FireFlux I grass fire experiment (30 hectares), with the extension of the EnKF algorithm to a spatially-distributed parameter estimation approach – Zhang et al. (2017)
• the 2012 RxCADRE S5 grass fire experiment, with the front shape similarity measure to adequatly quantify fire front discrepancies – Zhang et al. (2019a, b)

The current strategy adopted in FIREFLY is suitable for surface wildfire spread, but would require further developments to deal with a coupled atmosphere-fire modeling system. This is part of ongoing efforts.