Swansea University developing forecast system

A system to predict wildfires is being developed at a UK university.

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Swansea University is working on a model like those used in Canada and Australia in the hope it will help track the likelihood and risk fires pose as the climate gets warmer.

At the moment the Met Office uses data from its fire severity index. That offers information on how bad a blaze could get in certain conditions.

Wildfires have been historically less extreme in the UK than elsewhere.

But they could become more common with climate change.

This new system, developed by the university"s Centre for Wildfire Research, will be a UK first.

The centre"s director, Prof Stefan Doerr, said his team were interested in how climate change was affecting fire occurrence and the harm fires could cause people, the environment and infrastructure.

They were working on a UK fire danger rating system to predict what risk fires will pose if they break out.

"So it will tell us, in this particular type of vegetation, under these particular weather conditions, the flames may be very high, so too high for example, for people on foot," Prof Doerr said.

That could help firefighters planning how to tackle a blaze.

"The system should also tell us whether there are any assets at risk, are there houses nearby, do we need to evacuate people," Porf Doerr said.

He hoped the system would provide effective wildfire warnings that could help with fires such as those seen in London in July.

"Fires in the UK are becoming more and more problematic, and the behaviour of the fires as well, how long the flames are, for example, or how rapidly they spread over the landscape," said Prof Doerr.