To align the observations with the model output, we reassigned the reported time to the closest model output and moved the location coordinates to the nearest point where fuel load was greater than zero, still inside the fire perimeter. The locations had to be slightly moved because the Anderson fuels used by the model had a considerable number of points categorized as urban fuels (corresponding to a category with no fuel load), which would result in the model being unable to spread the fire to the exact observed location. 
Table 3: Summary of timestamps used in the simulations’ verification. Locations are referred to by the name in bold font.