EVALUATION OF FIRE ACTIVITY IN SOME REGIONS OF AEGEAN COASTS OF TURKEY VIA CANADIAN FOREST FIRE WEATHER INDEX SYSTEM (CFFWIS)

Abstract

Canakkale, Izmir and Mugla regions, which have much higher number of fires and larger burnt area values than Turkey's mean values, are the regions at 1st rank in terms of forest fire risk. The negative changes in climate conditions in recent years have significantly increased the forest fire risk. One of the most common methods used worldwide in order to rank the weather-related forest fire risk is the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System (CFFWIS). In this research, it has been determined for all of 3 regions that the SSR index calculated by using DSR index was statistically significantly successful in explaining the burnt area in forest fires. The success levels of SSR were 37.8% in Canakkale Region, 49.8% in Izmir region, and 59.6% in Mugla region.