Landscape fire occurrence can be predicted by fire danger rating systems. Fire danger rating systems have been developed in many fire-prone regions around the world to assist authorities in a variety of fire management activities such as assessing the potential for fires and issuing fire warning. Traditionally, these systems combine different environmental variables affecting landscape fire behavior, such as weather data (e.g., temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction), terrain properties (e.g., slope and aspects) and fuel characteristics (e.g., type and load), into numerical fire danger indices. Such indices are designed to provide a quantifiable measure of the potential for landscape fires to ignite, spread and be suppressed.
