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How to cite: Oom, D., de Rigo, D., San-Miguel-Ayanz, J., Artes-Vivancos, T., Boca, R., Branco, A., Campanharo, W.A., Grecchi, R., Houston Durrant, T., Ferrari, D., Libertà, G., Maianti, P., Pfeiffer, H., 2021. Wildfires. In: Poljanšek, K., Valles, A.C., Ferrer, M.M. (Eds.), Recommendations for National Risk Assessment for Disaster Risk Management in EU: Where Science and Policy Meet - Version 1. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, pp. 93–105. ISBN: 978-92-76-30256-8 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6045337 ───・───・─── This chapter is part of the book: Karmen, P., Casajus Valles, A., Marín Ferrer, M., et al., 2021. Recommendations for national risk assessment for disaster risk management in EU: where science and policy meet - Version 1. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg. ISBN: 978-92-76-30256-8 https://doi.org/10.2760/80545 From the book: © European Union, 2021 The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p. 39). Except otherwise noted, the reuse of this document is authorised under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please, refer to the final version of the book published at https://doi.org/10.2760/80545 for any specific information. Summary (excerpts from the chapter) Wildfire risk assessment is fundamental for developing prevention, mitigation and preparedness plans. Many countries have customized approaches to assess wildfire risk and these vary widely among them [...]. The level of elaboration of these assessments is often related to the impact of fires in these regions and countries. Normally, those countries more often confronted with wildfires are more prepared and have elaborated detailed wildfire risk maps at country/regional level. However, this process has led to different regional/national approaches that are not comparable, although wildfires are often transborder events and may affect several countries simultaneously. Harmonized procedures for wildfire risk assessment are needed in the context of the pan-European region to enhance planning and coordination of prevention, preparedness and firefighting actions to mitigate the damaging effects of wildfires. The impact of fires across the EU and neighbor countries requires a pan-European assessment of wildfire risk, which is described in the sections that follow. This approach is currently under development in close cooperation with between the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, other Commission services and the Commission Expert Group on Forest Fires, which is now composed of fire management representatives from 42 countries in the region. A harmonized approach would improve cooperation among different regions of Europe and support a more efficient response in case of critical wildfire events, which are becoming more frequent under a changing climate. The main goal of this chapter is to describe the development of a pan-European wildfire risk assessment based on a standardized approach described in JRC Science for Disaster Risk Management report published in 2017 [...]. This approach was further elaborated in the JRC Technical Report on Basic Criteria to assess Wildfire Risk at the pan-European level [...] by presenting a first set of data that would enable the implementation of proposed assessment. The development of this pan-European approach follows from a series of EU regulations that require the European Commission to have a wide overview of the wildfire risk in the European region, to support the actions of its Member States and to ensure compliance in the implementation of EU regulations related to wildfires. The assessment will allow the inter-comparison of wildfire risk assessment among countries and be complementary to existing national wildfire risk assessments. Additionally, it can serve as a first approach to assess wildfire risk in those countries that have not yet performed a national wildfire risk assessment. [...] European fire risk: simple, consistent maps to support policy - Wildfire risk is defined combining wildfire danger and vulnerability (people, ecosystems, goods exposed in vulnerable areas). Ecosystems are assessed by their ecological value. Goods are assessed by their socioeconomic value. A wildfire risk map is then generated as an index to summarize the combined effect of wildfire danger and vulnerability. High risk may be expected where high wildfire danger affects the most critical areas for people, and secondarily for the other ecological and socioeconomic aspects. The format of the risk map allows risk classes (from low to high risk) to be identified, with a simple score ranging from 0 % to 100 %, which could then be aggregated in three levels of risk: low, medium and high. [...] |
