Forest Fires in India According to the report of the Fores | Environment Ecology Science
Forest Fires in India
According to the report of the Forest Survey of India, between 2003–2017, a total of 5,20,861 active forest fire events were detected in India.
About 54% of the forest cover in India is exposed to occasional fire.
Most fire prone regions - Northeast India, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Western Himalaya have shown a sharp increase of carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and ozone during high fire activity periods.
The occurrence of high fire intensity at the low altitude Himalayan hilly regions may be due to the plant species (pine trees) in the area and proximity to villages.
Villages make them more susceptible to anthropogenic activities like forest cover clearance, grazing and so on.
The sharp increase in average and maximum air temperature, decline in precipitation, and change in land-use patterns have caused the increased episodes of forest fires in most of the Asian countries.
