What Causes Forest Fires?
There are five main causes
to forest fires that should be acknowledged. These five causes include the
following:
1.
Natural fires
2. Accidental fires
3. Fires due to negligence
4. Fires due to arson
5. Fires of dubious cause
These causes were broken down into a range of motives relating to the social, economic, and productive profiles of the various territorial realities. The five main categories are listed below along with the possible motives.
Natural
causes
1
- fires caused by lightening
2
- fires caused by volcanic eruption
Accidental
causes
1
- fires caused by sparks from wheels of trains or
certain locomotives
2
- other causes
Negligence
A
- fires caused by cigarette stubs or matches
1
- along roadways
2
- in rural areas
3
- in wooded areas
4
- along railway lines
B
- fires caused by agricultural and forestry activities
1
- for the clearing of uncultivated land
2
- for the clearing of plant residue (forestry and
agricultural processing)
3
- for the renewal of pastures
4
- for the burning of stubble
5
- for the clearing of road and railway embankments
C
- fires caused by other forms of negligence
1
- fires caused by recreational and tourist activities
2
- fires caused by the firing of firecrackers and
rockets, blasting of landmines or explosive
3
- fires caused by the use of motor, flame, electric or
mechanical devices
4
- fires caused by military maneuvers or shooting
exercises
5
- fires caused by the burning of waste in illegal dumps
6
- fires caused by bad maintenance of electrical lines
or by the breakage or falling of wires
7
- fires caused by negligence not otherwise defined
Arson
A
- fires caused in connection with profit seeking
1
- fires caused by the creation or renewal of pastures
at the expense of forests
2
- fires caused by the will to regain agricultural
terrain at the expense of forests for cultivation or to activate funding from
European Union
3
- fires caused with the intent of earning from the
removal of vegetation for the purpose of agricultural cultivation
4
- fires caused with the intent of earning from the
removal of vegetation for the purpose of building speculation
5
- fires caused with the intent of seeking advantage
(opening of forestry trails, agricultural operations to save on labor,
destruction of forestry mass)
6
- fires caused by occupational questions related to
laborers hired by local administrations
7
- fires caused with the intent of destroying by fire
badly executed forestry operations
8
- fires caused with the intent of being included in
firefighting efforts
9
- fires caused by inappropriate activity referable to
poaching
10
- fires caused to obtain products deriving from fire
passage
11
- fires caused by organized crime
B
- fires due to manifestations of protest, resentment or insensitivity toward
forests
1
- fires caused as revenge or retaliation against public
administration
2
- fires caused by conflicts between or revenge against
owners
3
- fires caused as protest against limitations imposed
in conservation areas
4
- fires caused for fun or games by minors
5
- fires caused with the intent of devaluing tourist
areas
6
- fires caused by matters relating to political
contrast
7
- fires caused by terrorist acts
8
- fires caused by dissatisfaction, social dissent, behavioral
disturbances (pyromania and mythomania)
C
- fires due to dubious causes
1
- fires caused by arson not otherwise defined
Dubious causes
1 - causes in which the motives that gave rise to the fire are not identifiable