Wildfire Exposure Online Map
Countries to which the data refer | GERMANY | |
Countries to which the data refer | CZECH REPUBLIC | |
Type of the data | Other | |
Total size of the dataset | 62351199 | |
Author | Avouris, Evripidis | |
Upload date | 2025-10-08T14:23:54Z | |
Publication date | 2025-10-08T14:23:54Z | |
Publication date | 2025-10-08 | |
Abstract of the dataset | This interactive online map is accompanying the paper "Exposure of Settlements to Wildfires in a Transboundary Wildland-Urban-Interface Region in Central Europe" submitted to the NHESS journal, and was created to showcase exposure of settlements located within the boundaries of the Saxon/Bohemian Switzerland National Parks and the Conservation Areas of Saxon Switzerland and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. | |
Public reference to this page | https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/handle/123456789/1714 | |
Public reference to this page | https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-954 | |
Publisher | Technische Universität Dresden | |
Licence | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International | en |
URI of the licence text | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |
Specification of the discipline(s) | 3::34::315::315-02 | |
Title of the dataset | Wildfire Exposure Online Map | |
Project abstract | Climate change has been causing a noticeable rise in disastrous wildfires in Mediterranean and temperate forests. Although forest fires were rare and small events in Central Europe, the region is recently experiencing large wildfires. For example, a wildfire burned significant parts of two National Parks at the border between Germany and the Czech Republic in 2022. This event demonstrated the need for local stakeholders and the scientific community to adapt fire risk assessment and management to this new reality. Here we aim to create a wildfire exposure map for the trans-boundary national park region Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland between Germany and the Czech Republic. We use several Earth observation products, historical fire occurrence points, medium to very high fire danger weather and wind scenarios, and three different fire duration scenarios (1, 2, 3 days) to simulate fire behaviour and burn probability, and to finally assess the potential exposure of settlements to wildfires. Observations from the wildfire in 2022 were used to validate the modelling framework. The interactive wildfire exposure map was tested with the general audience and local stakeholders for its usability and usefulness. We generally found higher burn probability and potential flame length at settlements in the Czech part of the region, however, our results and the experiences from the past fire have shown that wildfires cross borders, demonstrating the need for coordinated trans-border wildfire management. | |
Project title | Exposure of Settlements to Wildfires in a Transboundary Wildland-Urban-Interface Region in Central Europe |
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