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, 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.

Anagrams

• frontfire