Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science

The comprehensive evaluation of forest fire danger in the exclusion zone is done. The frequency of large wildfires cases indicates a high probability of uncontrolled fires occurrence in the coming years. The deterioration of trees health conditions and accumulation of clutter increases the wildfire hazard and causes of fires of high intensity. Wildfire casesdepending of complex fire weather index are analyzed. The local fire weather danger scale is constructed.

wildfire, Exclusion Zone, Chornobyl NPP, wildfire statistic, fire danger, complex fire weather index