Granström, Anders
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Wildfire damage to the built environment and people is typically understood through case studies of high-impact events, or from incident databases where the smallest wildfires are not always accounted for. We analyzed an exhaustive database of 131 040 reported fire service wildfire dispatches (1996-2022) in Sweden. There were on average per year 126 wildfires that threatened buildings, 22 that ignited buildings, 17.6 that injured people and 1.1 that led to a fatality. The analysis showed that building ignitions, human injuries as well as fatalities in this region were caused primarily by relatively small fires (90th percentile
Keywords
Wildfire; Property; Building ignition; Injury; Wildland-urban interface; Traditional fire use
Published in
Fire Safety Journal
2025, volume: 156, article number: 104457
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Ecology
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2025.104457
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/142990