Artificial intelligence has been applied in wildfire science and management since the 1990s,
with early applications including neural networks and expert systems. Since then, the field …

Key message Wildfire danger and burnt areas should increase over the century in southern
Europe, owing to climate warming. Fire-prone area expansion to the north and to …

Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

Wildfire is a common phenomenon in Mediterranean countries but the 2022 fire season has
been extreme in southwest Europe (Portugal, Spain and France). Here we provide a …

Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression
capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their …

Forest fire activity has increased in recent years in central and south‐central Chile. Drought
conditions have been associated with the increase of large wildfires, area burned and …

Wildfire susceptibility is a measure of land propensity for the occurrence of wildfires based
on terrain's intrinsic characteristics. In the present study, two stochastic approaches (ie …

The recent catastrophic wildfires in Portugal and Chile shared similar features, not just
because they developed under extreme weather conditions but also because extensive …

Over the past 15 years, 3 million hectares of forests have been converted into shrublands or
grasslands in the Mediterranean countries of the European Union. Fire and drought are the …

This study explored and applied the concepts of Fire Regulation Capacity (FRC) and Fire
Protection Ecosystem Service (FPES) in the assessment of the effects of landscape change …