Sentence examples for large forest fire from inspiring English sources

Statistical relationships between the distance from the nearest WUI area, and large forest fire incidents from satellite remote sensing were subsequently modelled by logistic regression analysis.

This study focuses on a large forest fire that occurred in north-eastern Spain in 1998, which left large areas of unburned vegetation within its perimeter.

In Quintana Roo, damaged vegetation fueled a large forest fire.

It also may be an important clue toward resolving a debate about how much, and even whether, to try to prevent large forest fires.

But the few significant crises on her watch, mainly large forest fires and a prison hostage siege, she seemed to handle without much criticism.

In western US federally managed forests (which is most of them), the number of large forest fires has increased over 500%, the burned area over 1,000%, since the 1970s and early 1980s.

Over the past 30 years there has been a fourfold increase in the number of large forest fires in the American west, while the fire season has grown by 84 days to 220 days in this time.

David Martell, a professor in the Fire Management Systems Laboratory of the University of Toronto, said that large forest fires are effectively impossible to fight in hot, dry conditions, because they can shoot out flames more than a mile ahead of their fronts.

Large forest fires (natural and human made) can also be visible from space.

Large forest fires have recently increased in frequency and severity in many ecosystems.

The low carbon densities in eastern wards such as Kiangara and Mirui (Fig. 3) correspond with the presence of large forest fires in these areas during the year 2013 [62].