Welcome to EFFIS
EFFIS - European Forest Fire Information System - supports the services in charge of the protection of forests against fires in the EU and neighbor countries and provides the European Commission services and the European Parliament with updated and reliable information on wildfires in Europe. The fires mapped in EFFIS may include fires set intentionally for the purpose of vegetation management.
Since 1998, EFFIS is supported by a network of experts from the countries in what is called the Expert Group on Forest Fires, which is registered under the Secretariat General of the European Commission. Currently, this group consists on experts from 43 countries in European, Middle East and North African countries. In 2015, EFFIS became one of the components of the Emergency Management Services in the EU Copernicus program.
A number of specific applications are available through EFFIS:
EFFIS applications
The most up to date information on the current fire season in Europe and in the Mediterranean area.
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Statistics are provided at national level and also for 3 groups of countries, EU, European non-EU countries, and Middle East and North Africa countries.
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Fire news is an application that collects, geo-locates and stores in a database fire news published in the internet in all the EU and other languages, allowing the user to filter the news on the basis of geographical scope, keywords, etc.
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Monthly and seasonal forecast of temperature and rainfall anomalies that are expected to prevail over European and Mediterranean areas.
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Wildfire Risk index for the pan-European Scale. This includes two main groups of components by considering the fire danger and the vulnerability on three categories: people, ecological, and economic values.
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Request for country totals (burnt areas & number of fires) per year, as published in the Forest Fires in Europe, North Africa and Middle East reports, and more.
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