LIBRARY: Where forest meets city: reducing fire risk through fuel treatment modelling

Wildland–Urban Interface (WUI) fires represent one of the most pressing environmental and civil protection challenges facing the Mediterranean and Adriatic-Ionian regions.
This report presents the methodology and findings from fire behaviour modelling conducted in three representative WUI pilot sites across the ADRION region: Potenza (Italy), Marathon (Greece), and Loznica (Serbia). The primary objective is to quantify how different fuel treatment strategies influence fire spread dynamics, flame length, and structural exposure, providing evidence-based guidance for planners, civil protection agencies, and land managers.
Three concentric buffer zones around WUI areas were analysed under three fuel treatment scenarios. All three treatment scenarios achieved substantial reductions in fire behaviour metrics across all pilot sites, with effectiveness varying by treatment intensity and local fuel characteristics.

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