Worldwide wildfire spreading and its severity described by the SIR model

2024/04/22 by Tong Pan, Pan, Tong, Hongjun Wang +5
Environmental Science · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Fire effects on ecosystems #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.16874

openalex publication_date 2024/04/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Global wildfire spreading dynamics and severity are analyzed using the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) compartment model. We use the novel FireTracks (FT) Scientific Dataset covering the wildfire time series of 2002-2023.

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