Forest fire danger extremes in Europe under climate change: variability and uncertainty

In this work, the emphasis is on the direct influence on fire danger of weather and climate. However,
other factors, such as vegetation conditions and composition, as well as human behaviour,
are also important and affect the occurrence of fires in complex ways. Although the state of
knowledge at the European scale for these aspects of fire danger is still qualitative and incomplete,
it is possible to summarise core or emerging components of the heterogeneous information
by offering a reasoned overview.