People&Fire webGIS tool for wildfire risk assessment.

People&Fire webGIS tool is an application for wildfire risk assessment, focused on obtaining simulating hazard and risk scenarios centred on land use transformation. This tool is a decision-support platform created in the context of a research project, which was dedicated to testing a new analytical framework for supporting the development and evaluation of new, integrated, and people-centred policy approaches to wildfires. The simulator used in the tool is based on the wildfire risk model that results from the combination of three components: hazard (H), exposure (E), and social vulnerability (SV).

Biophysical controls over fire regime properties in Central Portugal.

The concept of fire regime can be used to describe, with different degrees of complexity, the spatial and temporal patterns of fires and their effects within a given area and over a given period. In this work, we explore the relations between fire regime and a set of potential biophysical controls at a local scale, for 972 civil parishes in central Portugal. The fire regime was characterized with reference to a 44-year period (1975-2018) using three properties: cumulative percentage of parish area burned, area-weighted total number of wildfires, and the Gini concentration index of burned area over time.