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Article 1 - Volume 36/1 - 2026

Paper title:

Spatial and temporal analysis of wildfires in Suceava and Botoșani counties (Romania) during 2019-2024

Author(s):

Andrei – Ionuț PAVĂL1, Dumitru MIHĂILĂ1, Petruț – Ionel BISTRICEAN1

1 Department of Geography, Ștefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania

Pages:

1 - 13

Publishing date:

17 November 2025

Abstract:

Vegetation fires are processes with a significant impact on the geosystem, whose widespread occurrence on Earth has taken place from the beginning of the Carboniferous period to the present day, a period of time in which the potential factors triggering and propagating them and their causes have diversified against the backdrop of changes in the natural geographical environment, compounded by increasingly pronounced human intervention. In this paper, we analyze and present the spatial and temporal distribution of vegetation fires between 2019 and 2024 for the counties of Suceava and Botoșani (Romania), to which we add the identification and examination of the factors that favor the occurrence of these processes, using information obtained in the field. Our results show that, from a spatial point of view, the number of vegetation fires increases considerably from the mountainous to the plains, and temporally, the number of events studied fluctuated, influenced by a combination of predominantly anthropogenic factors.

Keywords:

Vegetation fire, fire, spatiality, temporality, fire regime, land management