targeted at reducing fire incidences in twelve protected forests in arid Burkina Faso. The project consisted of two components … the detrimental effects of forest fires, and a program to support establishing and maintaining forest fire prevention … infrastructures. Using the Synthetic Control Method the paper finds that the project resulted in a 35% reduction in forest fire …

address that gap. Smoke data from the NOAA Hazard Mapping System, Smoke and Fire Product is matched to data on employment and …

understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area …

and fuel levels. Thus, when ignition occurs, one can predict the expected fire behaviour in terms of spread direction and … be sufficient to deal with the fire intensity, which only becomes revealed at the fire scene. In such cases, additional … resources may be needed to contain the fire effectively. This worst-case approach is modelled with the support of the robust …