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Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2013 Joint Report of JRC and Directorate-General Environment Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2013 Joint report of JRC and Directorate-General Environment 2 0 1 4 Report EUR 26791 EN European Commission Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Contact information Address: Joint Research Centre, Via Enrico Fermi 2749, TP 261, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +39 0332 78 6138 Fax: +39 0332 78 5500 http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ http://www.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ This publication is a Technical Report by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Legal Notice This publication is a Technical Report by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission’s in-house science service. It aims to provide evidence-based scientific support to the European policy-making process. The scientific output expressed does not imply a policy position of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication. JRC91373 EUR 26791 EN ISBN 978-92-79-39628-1 (print) ISBN 978-92-79-39627-4 (pdf) ISSN 1018-5593 (print) ISSN 1831-9424 (online) doi:10.2788/99870 (online) Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2014 © European Union, 2014 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Italy Forest Fires in Europe, Middle East and North Africa 2013 Contacts: JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Institute for Environment and Sustainability Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit Guido Schmuck [email protected] Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz [email protected] Andrea Camia [email protected] Tracy Durrant [email protected] Roberto Boca [email protected] Giorgio Libertá [email protected] Thomas Petroliagkis [email protected] Margherita Di Leo [email protected] Dario Rodrigues [email protected] Francesco Boccacci [email protected] DIRECTORATE-GENERAL ENVIRONMENT Directorate B: Natural Capital Agriculture, Forests & Soil Unit Ernst Schulte [email protected] MEMBER STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES See list of contributors for country reports. Sources of data and comments are also given in the text. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS FOR THE COUNTRY REPORTS Algeria Abdelhafid BENCHIKHA Direction Générale de la Protection Civile Mohamed ABBAS Direction Générale des Forêts Austria Franz HUMER The Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association Bulgaria Vladimir KONSTANTINOV Executive Forest Agency Croatia Directorate for Forestry, Hunting and Wood Industry, Ministry of Agriculture Neven SZABO National Protection and Rescue Directorate Cyprus Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Department of Forests Estonia Veljo KÜTT The Estonian Environment Agency Kadi KÕIV Ministry of the Environment Finland Rami RUUSKA Ministry of Interior Department for Rescue Services FYROM Tatjana ANASTASOV Protection and rescue Directorate Department for analysis and research France Philippe MICHAUT Direction de la Défense et de la Sécurité Civiles Philippe JOANNELLE Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Agroalimentaire et de la Forêt , DGPAAT Germany Michaela LACHMANN Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food Greece Eirini ALEXIOU Ministry of Environment, Energy, and Climatic Change; Special Secretariat of Forests; Directorate General for Development and Protection of Forests and Natural Environment Hungary Peter DEBRECENI Forestry Directorate, Forest Inspection and Protection Service Unit Dániel NAGY Ireland Ciaran NUGENT Forest service Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Italy Mauro CAPONE Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali Fabrizio DI LIBERTO Italian Forest Corps Lorenza COLLETTI Latvia Edijs LEISAVNIEKS State Forest Service; Forest and Environmental Protection Department Lebanon George MITRI University of Balamand Lithuania Zbignev GLAZKO Ministry of Environment Directorate General of State Forests Morocco Fouad ASSALI Service de la protection des forêts Hicham ALAOUI M'HARZI Haut-Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte Contre la Désertification) Norway Dag BOTNEN Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning Poland Joseph PIWNICKI Forest Research Institute Forest Fire Protection Department Portugal Marta JANEIRA National Authority for Civil Protection (ANPC) Alexandre BORGES Romania Septimius MARA Ministry of Environment and Climatic Changes Radu SBIRNEA Department for Waters, Forests and Fishery Russian Andrey ERITSOV Aerial Forest Fire Centre of Russian Federation Federation Slovak Rep. Valéria LONGAUEROVÁ National Forest Centre; Forest Research Institute Slovenia Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment Spain Elsa ENRIQUEZ Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino Área de Defensa Contra Incendios Forestales Sweden Leif SANDAHL Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) Risk & Vulnerability Reduction Department Switzerland Michael REINHARD Federal Office for the Environment Marco CONEDERA WSL Federal Research Institute Boris PEZZATTI Turkey Ahmet KISA Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Fire Brigade Department Table of Contents 1 PREFACE ......................................................................................................... 1 2 FOREST FIRES 2013 ......................................................................................... 2 2.1 Introduction to the 2013 fire season in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. ..... 2 2.2 European countries ..................................................................................... 4 2.2.1 Austria .................................................................................................4 2.2.2 Bulgaria ...............................................................................................5 2.2.3 Croatia .................................................................................................6 2.2.4 Cyprus .................................................................................................9 2.2.5 Estonia ............................................................................................... 11 2.2.6 Finland ............................................................................................... 12 2.2.7 France ............................................................................................... 13 2.2.8 FYROM ............................................................................................... 17 2.2.9 Germany ............................................................................................ 18 2.2.10 Greece ............................................................................................... 20 2.2.11 Hungary ............................................................................................. 22 2.2.12 Ireland ............................................................................................... 25 2.2.13 Italy .................................................................................................. 27 2.2.14 Latvia ................................................................................................ 30 2.2.15 Lithuania ............................................................................................ 32 2.2.16 Norway .............................................................................................. 33 2.2.17 Poland ............................................................................................... 35 2.2.18 Portugal ............................................................................................. 40 2.2.19 Romania ............................................................................................. 44 2.2.20 Russian Federation............................................................................... 47 2.2.21 Slovak Republic ................................................................................... 50 2.2.22 Slovenia ............................................................................................. 52 2.2.23 Spain ................................................................................................. 53 2.2.24 Sweden .............................................................................................. 57 2.2.25 Switzerland ......................................................................................... 59 2.2.26 Turkey ............................................................................................... 60 2.3 Comparison of Southern EU Countries with longer time series (1980 – 2013) .... 62 2.4 Middle East and North Africa Countries ........................................................ 65 2.4.1 Algeria ............................................................................................... 65 2.4.2 Lebanon ............................................................................................. 68 2.4.3 Morocco ............................................................................................. 71 3 THE EUROPEAN FOREST FIRE INFORMATION SYSTEM (EFFIS) .................................. 76 3.1 EFFIS Danger Forecast: 2013 results ........................................................... 77 3.2 EFFIS Rapid Damage Assessment: 2013 results ........................................... 87 Europe ........................................................................................................ 90 3.2.1 Albania..............................................................................................
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