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Wildfires impose significant risks to human lives and economic activities. In extreme fire weather events, strong winds and wind-born debris may even weaken the integrity of infrastructure. Climate change may further increase the frequency of fire weather occurrences, including an increase in temperature, greater variance in rainfall and increase in fire season duration. Climate projections indicate that there could also be an increase in the severity of fire.

This indicator is based on the MODIS (Aqua & Terra) Fire and Thermal Anomaly Dataset from 2017-2022. The dataset differentiates between different types of thermal anomalies. For the use in the WWF BRF only presumed vegetation fires were taken into account (not e.g. active volcanoes, offshore fires or other static land sources). 

What does very high risk mean for this indicator?
Areas of very high risk have a very high maximum annual number of fires in any year per 1000km2. See the documentation for more details.



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Wildfires impose significant risks to human lives and economic activities. In extreme fire weather events, strong winds and wind-born debris may even weaken the integrity of infrastructure. Climate change may further increase the frequency of fire weather occurrences, including an increase in temperature, greater variance in rainfall and increase in fire season duration. Climate projections indicate that there could also be an increase in the severity of fire.

This indicator is based on the MODIS (Aqua & Terra) Fire and Thermal Anomaly Dataset from 2017-2022. The dataset differentiates between different types of thermal anomalies. For the use in the WWF BRF only presumed vegetation fires were taken into account (not e.g. active volcanoes, offshore fires or other static land sources). 

What does very high risk mean for this indicator?
Areas of very high risk have a very high maximum annual number of fires in any year per 1000km2. See the documentation for more details.



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NASA (2022)



Spatial Reference:
102100

Single Fused Map Cache: true

Capabilities: Map,TilesOnly,Tilemap

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Resampling: true

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