WILDLAND FIRE DANGER ZONING - A METHODOLOGY

A mountain area in Southeastern Greece exposed to wildland fire proble ms was used to establish a method for fire danger zoning. Meteorologic al risk (MR), fuel susceptibility (FS) and fire occurrence (FO) maps a re created. The method integrates these maps and produces the constant and variable danger (CFD,VFD) zones that require respective activitie s for wildland fire prevention. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was used to perform the overlay analysis of thematic maps and delineat e the fire danger zones.