Drivers and Trends in the Size and Severity of Forest Fires Endangering WUI Areas: A Regional Case Study
Fernando Rodriguez-Jimenez,
Paulo M. Fernandes,
José Manuel Fernández-Guisuraga
et al.
Abstract:This study explored, for the first time, the drivers shaping large fire size and high severity of forest fires classified as level-2 in Spain, which pose a great danger to the wildland–urban interface. Specifically, we examined how bottom-up (fuel type and topography) and top-down (fire weather) controls shaped level-2 fire behavior through a Random Forest classifier at the regional scale in Galicia (NW Spain). We selected for this purpose 93 level-2 forest fires. The accuracy of the RF fire size and severity … Show more
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