Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe

Wildfire is a common phenomenon in Mediterranean countries but the 2022 fire season has been extreme in southwest Europe (Portugal, Spain and France). Here we provide a preliminary but comprehensive analysis of 2022's wildfire season in southwest Europe. Burned area has exceeded the 2001–2021 m...

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Autores: Rodrigues Mimbrero, Marcos, Cunill Camprubí, Àngel, Balaguer-Romano, Rodrigo, Coco Megía, Celso J., Castañares, Francisco, Ruffault, Julien, Fernandes, Paulo M., Resco de Dios, Víctor
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Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160320
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468781
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Palabra clave:Burned area
Global warming
Fuel
Protected areas
Wildfire season
Risk management
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spelling Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest EuropeRodrigues Mimbrero, MarcosCunill Camprubí, ÀngelBalaguer-Romano, RodrigoCoco Megía, Celso J.Castañares, FranciscoRuffault, JulienFernandes, Paulo M.Resco de Dios, VíctorBurned areaGlobal warmingFuelProtected areasWildfire seasonRisk managementWildfire is a common phenomenon in Mediterranean countries but the 2022 fire season has been extreme in southwest Europe (Portugal, Spain and France). Here we provide a preliminary but comprehensive analysis of 2022's wildfire season in southwest Europe. Burned area has exceeded the 2001–2021 median by a factor of 52 in some regions and large wildfires (>500 ha) started to occur in June–July, earlier than the traditional fire season. These anomalies were associated with record-breaking values of fuel dryness, atmospheric water demand and pyrometeorological conditions. Live fuel moisture content was below the historical minima for almost 50 % of the season in some regions. A few large wildfires were responsible for 82 % of the burned area and, in turn, 47 % of the area burned occurred in protected areas. Shrublands, transitional woodlands and conifer forests (but not eucalypt plantations) were the land cover types most affected by extreme fires. As climate change intensifies, we can expect such fire seasons to become the new normal in large parts of the continent, potentially leading to major negative impacts on rural economies. These results highlight the need for landscape level fuel management also in protected areas, to avoid fire-induced biodiversity losses and landscape scale degradation. Our results have important policy implications and indicate that fire prevention should be explicitly addressed within continental forest legislation and strategies.This work was supported by MICINN projects (RTI2018-094691-B-C31, PID2020-116556RA-I00); EU H2020 (grant agreements 101003890 and 101037419); and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDB/04033/2020).Elsevier2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160320https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468781http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468781reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-094691-B-C31info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-116556RA-I00Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160320Science of The Total Environment, 2022, vol. 859, núm. 160320cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Elsevier, 2022Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:recercat.cat:10459.1/4687812026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
title Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
spellingShingle Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
Rodrigues Mimbrero, Marcos
Burned area
Global warming
Fuel
Protected areas
Wildfire season
Risk management
title_short Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
title_full Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
title_fullStr Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
title_full_unstemmed Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
title_sort Drivers and implications of the extreme 2022 wildfire season in Southwest Europe
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rodrigues Mimbrero, Marcos
Cunill Camprubí, Àngel
Balaguer-Romano, Rodrigo
Coco Megía, Celso J.
Castañares, Francisco
Ruffault, Julien
Fernandes, Paulo M.
Resco de Dios, Víctor
author Rodrigues Mimbrero, Marcos
author_facet Rodrigues Mimbrero, Marcos
Cunill Camprubí, Àngel
Balaguer-Romano, Rodrigo
Coco Megía, Celso J.
Castañares, Francisco
Ruffault, Julien
Fernandes, Paulo M.
Resco de Dios, Víctor
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author2 Cunill Camprubí, Àngel
Balaguer-Romano, Rodrigo
Coco Megía, Celso J.
Castañares, Francisco
Ruffault, Julien
Fernandes, Paulo M.
Resco de Dios, Víctor
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author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Burned area
Global warming
Fuel
Protected areas
Wildfire season
Risk management
topic Burned area
Global warming
Fuel
Protected areas
Wildfire season
Risk management
description Wildfire is a common phenomenon in Mediterranean countries but the 2022 fire season has been extreme in southwest Europe (Portugal, Spain and France). Here we provide a preliminary but comprehensive analysis of 2022's wildfire season in southwest Europe. Burned area has exceeded the 2001–2021 median by a factor of 52 in some regions and large wildfires (>500 ha) started to occur in June–July, earlier than the traditional fire season. These anomalies were associated with record-breaking values of fuel dryness, atmospheric water demand and pyrometeorological conditions. Live fuel moisture content was below the historical minima for almost 50 % of the season in some regions. A few large wildfires were responsible for 82 % of the burned area and, in turn, 47 % of the area burned occurred in protected areas. Shrublands, transitional woodlands and conifer forests (but not eucalypt plantations) were the land cover types most affected by extreme fires. As climate change intensifies, we can expect such fire seasons to become the new normal in large parts of the continent, potentially leading to major negative impacts on rural economies. These results highlight the need for landscape level fuel management also in protected areas, to avoid fire-induced biodiversity losses and landscape scale degradation. Our results have important policy implications and indicate that fire prevention should be explicitly addressed within continental forest legislation and strategies.
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Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160320
Science of The Total Environment, 2022, vol. 859, núm. 160320
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