LIBRARY: From satellites to recovery: monitoring wildfire severity to support post-fire resilience

The document presents a standardized methodology for evaluating damage caused by forest fires using remote sensing in the framework of the RES2FIRE project. It analyses the severity of fires for 105 events in seven countries in the Adriatic-Ionian area using Sentinel-2 and Landsat satellite images. The study applies the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and the differenced NBR (dNBR) to classify burned areas into severity levels. The results show that fires of medium-low and medium-high severity prevail in the region with strong spatial and temporal variability.
Large-scale and high-severity events are less frequent but have a disproportionate ecological impact, especially in Greece and Slovenia. The report highlights the value of harmonized and replicable satellite tools to support post-fire management and resilience planning.

Do you want learn more? Click here to download the “D 3.1.1 – Report on fire damage assessment through remote sensing techniques”