Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2641-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-2641-2018
Research article
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02 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 02 Oct 2018

Has fire policy decreased the return period of the largest wildfire events in France? A Bayesian assessment based on extreme value theory

Guillaume Evin, Thomas Curt, and Nicolas Eckert

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Very large wildfires have high human, economic, and ecological impacts. Preventing such events is a major objective of the new fire policy set up in France in 1994, which is oriented towards fast and massive fire suppression. This study investigates the effect of this policy on the largest fires. We estimate the burned area corresponding to fires that occur every 5, 20, and 50 years on average (so-called return periods) in southern France.
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