Forest Fire Trend and Influence of Climate Variability in India: A Geospatial Analysis at National and Local Scale

• Main Authors: Ahmad Firoz, Goparaju Laxmi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2019-03-01
• Series: Ekológia (Bratislava)
• Subjects: forest fire events; forest fire hotspot; meteorological and climatic data; cramer’s v coefficient; india
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/eko-2019-0005

Climate change and its severity play an important role in forest fire regime. Analysing the forest fires events becomes a prerequisite for safeguarding the forest from further damage. We have made an assessment of the long-term forest fire events at the district level in India and identified the forest fire hotspot districts. The spatial seasonal (January to June) district wise pattern and forest fire trend were analysed. In the second part of the study area (central part of India), we have evaluated the forest fire events in grid format with respect to the climatic/weather datasets, and the statistical analysis Cramer V coefficient (CVC) was performed to understand its association/relationship with forest fire events.