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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (13): 51-58.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2013-2849

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Analysis on Temporal-spatial Feature of Forest Fires in Chongqing

  

  • Received:2013-10-31 Revised:2013-12-25 Online:2014-05-05 Published:2014-05-05

Abstract: In order to provide scientific guidance for forest fire prevention, improve effectiveness of forest fire prevention, to reduce the fire loss, 679 forest fire cases containing date of records (among these data, 654 and 602 data respectively recorded start and end hour of forest fires) were used to analyze temporal feature, and 527 fires used to analyze spatial feature owing theirs latitude and longitude information. All the fire data were from 2000 to 2010 year in Chongqing. The results of calculation showed as following: (1) there were 61.7 forest fire annually during 2000-2010 year and the number of forest fires increased when drought occurring. (2) The forest fires occurred most frequently during spring, and the number was least Autumn, respectively second and third in winter and summer. (3) The forest fires mainly occurred in 4 months including February, March, April and August, and in November and December the fires were very rarely. (4) The start and end time of forest fires occurred mainly between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m, while between 9 p.m and 8 a.m very rarely. (5) Most forest fires’ duration was not long, and there was a negative exponential relation between duration and forest fire number. (6) The spatial distribution of forest fires varied with terrain height. In wild higher ground, more forest fires distributed at relatively lower piedmont area, while in wild lower ground, the more forest fires distributed at relatively higher mountain ridge. (7) The forest fire division was 6 grades according its number, and they were most easily occurring district, easily occurring district, generally occurring district, lower occurring district, rarely occurring district and not occurring district.