The online map of forest fire distribution in China in 2014 comes from the Atlas of natural disasters in China in 2014, the book is edited by the National Disaster Reduction Commission Office, the Disaster relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Disaster Reduction Center of Ministry of Civil Affairs, and is published by China Map Publishing House. The scale of this map is 1:22000000.
Online map of forest fire distribution in China in 2014
Connect to the map above.
General situation of forest fire disaster.
In 2014, there were 3703 forest fires in China, including 2080 general forest fires, 1620 great forest fires, 2 major forest fires (Yunnan) and 1 disastrous fire (Inner Mongolia). The damaged forest area was 190000 hectares, the forest volume was 354000 cubic meters, 53 people died and 59 people were injured.
In 2014, there were four main characteristics of forest fires. First is the level of loss. The number of forest fires has decreased for six consecutive years since 2008, the lowest since 1999. Second, the occurrence time is relatively concentrated. The forest fires occurred from January to may accounted for 89.1% of the whole year, most of which were concentrated in the Winter and spring with severe drought. Third, human factors are still the main cause of forest fire. 97.9% of the total forest fires were caused by forest burning, field smoking and children playing with fire. Fourth, the number of casualties has increased. The number of casualties increased by 101.2% compared with the average in the same period of the last three years, among which Guizhou, Shaanxi, Yunnan and Guangdong provinces were more serious.
Damaged forest area (HA.):
The closer to the dark green area in the figure, the larger the damaged forest area.
The closer to the light green area in the figure, the smaller the affected forest area.
The white area in the figure shows: Non affected areas.
All kinds of fires:
The orange rectangle in the figure indicates: General fire.
The light red rectangle in the figure indicates: Great fire.
The red rectangle in the figure indicates: Major fire.
The deep red rectangle in the figure indicates: Disastrous fire.
People affected:
The blue rectangle in the figure shows: Slightly injured population.
The light purple rectangle in the figure shows: Seriously injured population.
The dark purple rectangle in the figure shows: Dead population.
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