Evolution of the number of fires and burned area (Ha)

This indicator contains several tabs that provide information related to forest fire data in the demarcation of Girona. The information on the burned surface can be consulted disaggregated according to the following categories: Wooded forest: Burnt wooded forest surface, in hectares. Forest without trees: Forest surface of scrub, herbage or burned pastures, in hectares. Non-forest: Non-forest surface (urban, agricultural), burned, in hectares. To achieve environmental and health protection it is necessary to understand and plan for the effects of disturbances, in this case fire, on ecosystem services. Although fire is an essential liberating process nutrients, modifies competition and influences the composition of the plant community; fires produce emissions with regional and global impacts on air quality and rainfall patterns. Fires can also contribute to global warming through greenhouse gases, primarily CO2 and black carbon (short-lived climate pollutant). Therefore, fire is a complex process determined by the interaction it produces between the biosphere and the climate, a fact that can contribute to land degradation processes and affect people's health.