Understanding regional characteristics in forest fire occurrence is important to establish effective forest fire prevention policy in Korea. This study analyzed the characteristics of forest fires occurred in 16 administrative districts for recent 25 years (1990∼2014) to examine regional characteristics in forest fire occurrence. Forest fire occurrence reflects regional characteristics depending on climatic factors as well as region’s society-cultural factors. Results showed that the first cause of forest fire occurrence was carelessness by human activities throughout all administrative districts, however, the second cause depends on regional characteristics. As the results of forest fire occurrence period analyzed for 10 days, the most forest fires occurred in the southern region during January to March, while forest fires in the northern region occurred mostly during March to April. We classified forest fire occurrence patterns into three types (centralized: Gyeonggi-do, dispersal: Busan, horizontally distributed: Gyeongsangnam-do) by multi- temporal analysis for forest fire occurrence period.
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Abstract Introduction Materials and Methods Analysis of forest fire occurrence data during 25year in Korea Results and Discussion Forest fire occurrence number during 25 years in Korea Forest fire occurrence frequency by seasonal and monthly during 25 years in Korea The number of forest fire occurrence in each region of Korea Analysis on the Forest Fire Occurrence Causes by Region in Korea Forest fire occurrence pattern in each region of Korea Conclusion References
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regional characteristics in forest fire occurrenceforest fire frequencyforest fire occurrence causeforest fire occurrence pattern
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Bo Ram Jeon [ Department of Forest Environment System, Kangwon National University ]
Hee Mun Chae [ Department of Forest Environment Protection, Kangwon National University ]
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