FOREST FIRE PRESENTATION

Presentation

Forest Fires

Ana & Jaime11ºO

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What is A forest fire?

A forest fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.

• Forest fires are distinct from beneficial human usage of wildland fire, called controlled or prescribed burning, although controlled burns can turn into wildfires. Modern forest management often engages in prescribed burns to mitigate risk and promote natural forest cycles.

• Forest fires are often classified by characteristics like cause of ignition, physical properties, combustible material present, and the effect of weather on the fire.

• Some of Forest Fires are caused by men, some of them for example at a campfire that were not erased well.

Map of two major fires

81%

63%

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Amazon Forest

The Amazon rainforest, covering 5.5 million square kilometres, has seen the equivalent of 4.2 million football fields burn. In the month of August alone, 63% of the entire area burned this year burned.

Pedrogão Grande Fire

The Pedrugão Grande fire happened in June 2017 and was one of the largest in Portugal, burning about 81%.