Basic criteria to assess wildfire risk at the pan-European level

Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, Hugo Costa, Daniele de Rigo, Liberta' Giorgio, Artes Vivancos Tomas, Durrant Tracy, Nuijten Daniel, Loffler Peter, Moore Peter

Joint Research Centre (European Commission) · 2018 · 19 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

This report present basic criteria that could be used for the estimation of wildfire risk at the pan-European level. The report has been elaborated in consultation with the national experts in the Expert Group on Forest Fires. The report represents a first attempt on establishing critical variable that may help in characterizing areas in the pan-European region on the basis of the susceptibility to suffer damages caused by wildfires