Convergence in critical fuel moisture and fire weather thresholds associated with fire activity in the pyroregions of Mediterranean Europe

VR de Dios, ÀC Camprubí, N Pérez-Zanón… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildfires are becoming an increasing threat to many communities worldwide. There has
been substantial progress towards understanding the proximal causes of increased fire …

Understanding the impact of different landscape-level fuel management strategies on wildfire hazard in central Portugal

A Benali, ACL Sá, J Pinho, PM Fernandes… - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
The extreme 2017 fire season in Portugal led to widespread recognition of the need for a
paradigm shift in forest and wildfire management. We focused our study on Alvares, a parish …

Predicting Paradise: Modeling future wildfire disasters in the western US

AA Ager, MA Day, FJ Alcasena, CR Evers… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The 2018 Camp fire destroyed the town of Paradise, California and resulted in 82 fatalities,
the worst wildfire disaster in the US to date. Future disasters of similar or greater magnitude …

[HTML][HTML] Wildfire prediction using zero-inflated negative binomial mixed models: Application to Spain

M Bugallo, MD Esteban, MF Marey-Pérez… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfires have changed in recent decades. The catastrophic wildfires make it necessary to
have accurate predictive models on a country scale to organize firefighting resources. In …

Introduction to the Australian Fire Danger Rating System

JJ Hollis, S Matthews, P Fox-Hughes… - … Journal of Wildland …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Background: Fire danger rating systems are used daily across Australia to support fire
management operations and communications to the general public regarding potential fire …

The compound event that triggered the destructive fires of October 2017 in Portugal

AM Ramos, A Russo, CC DaCamara, S Nunes… - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
Portugal is regularly affected by destructive wildfires that have severe social, economic, and
ecological impacts. The total burnt area in 2017 (∼ 540,000 ha) marked the all-time record …

The fire weather in Europe: large-scale trends towards higher danger

J Hetzer, M Forrest, J Ribalaygua… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The climate over Europe has been recorded to be hotter, drier, and more fire-prone over the
last decade than ever before, leading to concerns about how climate change will alter fire …

Assessing risk and prioritizing safety interventions in human settlements affected by large wildfires

S Oliveira, A Gonçalves, A Benali, A Sá, JL Zêzere… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The large wildfires of June 2017 disturbed many communities in central Portugal. The civil
parish of Alvares was severely affected, with about 60% of its area burnt. Assessing the risk …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling wildfire spread simulations and connectivity analysis for hazard assessment: a case study in Serra da Cabreira, Portugal

ACL Sá, B Aparicio, A Benali, C Bruni… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2022 - nhess.copernicus.org
This study aims to assess wildfire hazard in northern Portugal by combining landscape-
scale wildfire spread modeling and connectivity analysis to help fuel management planning …

[HTML][HTML] A Landsat-based atlas of monthly burned area for Portugal, 1984–2021

AK Neves, ML Campagnolo, JMN Silva… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Portugal is the most fire-prone country in Southern Europe. Time series of satellite imagery
have great potential to improve fire mapping and explore the spatiotemporal trends of …