Temporal analysis of fire outbreaks in the municipality of Bom Jesus, Piauí

• Autor(a) principal: Soares da Silva, Leovandes
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: dos Santos Teixeira, Regina, Máximo Silva, Leonardo, da Silva Nogueira, Ariane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Diversitas Journal
• Texto Completo: https://diversitasjournal.com.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/2455
• topic: Fogo; impactos ambientais; flora; densidade de Kernel; Fire; environmental impacts; flora; Kernel's density

In recent years, the number of fires and forest fires in all regions of Brazil has been growing. This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence of fire outbreaks in the municipality of Bom Jesus, state of Piauí, Brazil, between 2016 and 2021. For the methodological procedures, records of the foci of occurrence of fires obtained from the Burning Database (BDQueimadas -INPE) were used. Spatial interpolations were made of the points of occurrence of fires and forest fires. Data from outbreaks for the years 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 were analyzed, later processed in the QGIS software. In the six years, most of the outbreaks occurred in the months of September and October, the driest months. Practically the entire area of the municipality was affected by the fires and fires, but the highest densities and intensities of the outbreaks were observed in the western region of the municipality. The outbreaks of fires and fires recorded in the last six years are concentrated in the west, northwest and center regions of the municipality, causing serious environmental impacts for biodiversity and the population in general.