2018
DOI: 10.3390/f9050234
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Are Wildfires Knocking on the Built-Up Areas Door?

Abstract: Human-started fires represent the vast majority of wildfires in Mediterranean countries. The current expansion of human settlements into fire-prone territories has led to the creation of landscapes where anthropogenic developments merge with wildland areas. In this context, understanding the role of distance from built-up areas in shaping coarse-scale wildfire spatial patterns is a major concern. Proximity to cities has become an important factor that may increase the probability of wildfires in wildland-urban… Show more

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“…It is worth pointing out that the presence of restrictive measures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to collect data with paper and pencil tools in these areas [42]. However, considering that the WUI population in Italy is highly variable and heterogeneous [2,43], we were able to detect only a small percentage of participants recruited by word-of-mouth and social media sharing in our general sample. Another limitation is related to the use of web surveys for data collection.…”
Section: Study Strengths and Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…It is worth pointing out that the presence of restrictive measures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to collect data with paper and pencil tools in these areas [42]. However, considering that the WUI population in Italy is highly variable and heterogeneous [2,43], we were able to detect only a small percentage of participants recruited by word-of-mouth and social media sharing in our general sample. Another limitation is related to the use of web surveys for data collection.…”
Section: Study Strengths and Limitationsmentioning
confidence: 89%
“…González-Olabarria et al (2015) in Catalonia observed that as elevation increases, ignition density decreases. Mancini et al (2018a) in Italy demonstrated that fire frequency decreases as elevation increases. In Sardinia, elevation is positively correlated with our response variables because the region is mostly characterized by mountainous areas with flammable vegetation rather than plains.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This confirms the poor predictive power of these variables in discriminating the fire occurrence and the fine dead fuel production. Numerous studies have shown that geomorphological variables have a greater influence on the likelihood of fire occurrence, ignition and spread [72,73]. For example, Elia et al [74] found that elevation and slope significantly influence the probability of wildfire occurrence in Italy.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%