Stormvn 3D-CGi uses the basic infection node to simulate fire spreading in a Bifrost Graph.
Watch this video by Stormvn 3D-CGi (which used to be the HyUU channel), which shows how to use his basic infection compound in Bifrost to determine where a fire will erode an object in the scene.
Growth and infection are popular setups in Side FX Houdini, Blender, and Cinema 4D Scene Nodes.
Download all of Stormvn 3D-CGi’s Bifrost Compounds here.