Fig. 1: Typical upward development of a wildfire along the forested mountain slope, here in Leuk (Valais). (Photo: Marco Conedera)
Fig. Typical upward development of a wildfire along the forested mountain slope, here in Leuk (Valais). (Photo: Marco Conedera) Climate change influences how often and how intensively forests in Switzerland could burn in the future. However, changes in land-use play a major role therein. Forest fire specialists at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research WSL in Cadenazzo have demonstrated this interplay in a new study. The statistics on the fire area south of the Alps show a regular and continuous downward trend since the 1980s. This development is mainly due to increasingly effective prevention and better organization of firefighting.
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