and the northern and central areas have low to moderate wildfire susceptibility. The FHRF map shows flood susceptibility to be high to very high in the western and southeastern parts of the province and low to moderate s in the north
Forest fires in Greece occur mainly in middle and low latitudes, as Kontoes et al. [15] reported for the period 1984–2021. During this period, the total BA for Attica was 108,072.32 ha, representing 28% of its total area and 12.3% of the areas burned in the entire country [10]. ...
Greece, like the rest of the Mediterranean countries, faces wildland fires every year. Besides their short-term socioeconomic impacts, ecological destruction, and loss of human lives, forest fires also increase the burnt areas' risk of flash flood phenomena, as the vegetation, which acted in a ...
Consequently, the last years have witnessed many high intensity forest fires that have resulted in significant human and economic damages, making them potential catastrophes. For instance, Portugal (2005, 2017), Spain (2017), Greece (2017, 2018), Australia (2020), California (2021), and France...
3. Smoke Environment (SE) Map Integrating Visibility and Toxic Gas 3.1. Smoke Exposure Risk and Corresponding Smoke Environment Levels Heat, smoke, and toxic gas are the main causes of casualties in a tunnel fire. Additionally, worsening visibility can indirectly lead to death [29]. In the ear...
Wildfire Effects on Soil Erosion Dynamics: The Case of 2021 Megafires in Greece. Agric. For. 2022, 68, 49–63. [CrossRef] 2. Silvestro, R.; Saulino, L.; Cavallo, C.; Allevato, E.; Pindozzi, S.; Cervelli, E.; Conti, P.; Mazzoleni, S.; Saracino, A. The Footprint of ...
In the Mediterranean Basin, where the WUI area has increased [28], extreme forest fires, such as those that occurred in Portugal in 2017, in Greece in 2018 or in Spain in 2021 and 2022, have seriously endangered inhabitants and caused unusual fatalities [29,30,31]. Although in some ...
In this area, wildfires have a significant impact, burning approximately 0.5 million every year in the five southern EU member states (Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy and France) [3]. The Mediterranean region is characterised by hot and dry summers, high diversity of plant species and unusual ...
Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and frequency. Research has been conducted towards the development of dedicate
in the afternoon hours. In the present work, we used collection 6.1. level-3 (1° × 1°) Terra and Aqua MODIS AOD550values of combined deep blue and dark target data over the India subcontinent [50,51,52]. To monitor and specifically map the forest fires, remote sensing technology ...