Sentence examples for intensity fires from inspiring English sources

Western ecosystems are adapted to periodic, low intensity fires that clean out accumulated debris and thin the trees.

These results indicate that the replacement of grass dominated with shrub-dominated landscapes has increased the probability of high intensity fires.

We also found most areas were burned by high intensity fires under the current fire scenario, but by low to moderate fires under the historic fire scenario.

After a half century of fire suppression, fire hazards have increased to a high level and high intensity fires are more likely to occur.

Large patches burnt by high intensity class fires dominate the landscape under the current fire scenario, and under historic fire scenario, patches burnt by low to moderate fire intensity fires have relatively larger size than those burnt by high intensity fires.

"We want to go back to the more natural, low intensity fires, that act to reduce fuels, and actually, for a lot of these dry pine types, help to regenerate and renew those forests," says the USDA's Robert Bonnie.

For instance, a pixel identified as experiencing an intense fire disturbance and a low intensity insect disturbance was assigned the high intensity fire disturbance as the single disturbance driving loss.

These places are very vulnerable to high intensity fire".

We report on the weather conditions, fuels and propagation of this fire to gain insights into the physical processes involved in high intensity fire behaviour in eucalypt forests.

Live fuels, also called canopy fuels, are live trees that may be ignited in high intensity fire situations (such as crown fires).

Though the FRE release of each of these low intensity fire pixels is relatively low, their comparatively large number makes their overall FRE significant.