Zoning Areas Susceptible To Forest Fire And GIS A Case Study

At first, in order to locate fire susceptible zones in this research, effective factors in forest fire were determined by studying different sources and then we weighed criteria to take advantage of experts’ views. Slop, direction, forest type, hydrographic, series range, topography, distance from roads and distance from town maps were studied. Results from the survey showed, vegetation coverage has allocated the most weight to itself (0.444). Obtained results expressed that 11.7% of area was too adverse; it means that fire probability is too high in these areas, 40.68% was adverse, 14.48% was average, 8.37% was quite favorable, 18.72% was favorable, and 6.05% was very good. In general we can say half of the local area is susceptible to forest fire, and we should plan to access different areas to control probable fire, regarding existing facility conditions and roads.

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MSC Student of HSE , Tehran University , Tehran , Iran