The Human Impacts Database

A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.

This quantity is a single measurement of the quantity at a given point in time (2001 — 2015).


Value:		(7.2 ± 1.3) × 10¹⁰ m² / yr see this value in other units This is equivalent to... (7.2 ± 1.3) × 10⁴ km² / yr (7.2 ± 1.3) × 10⁶ Ha / yr
HuID:		92221
Relevant Year(s):		2001 — 2015
Summary:		Average forest area disruption due to wild-fire in between 2001 and 2015. Forest area disruption due to wild-fire is defined as "large-scale forest loss resulting for the burning of forest vegetation with no visible human conversion or agricultural activity afterward."
Method:		Value is calculated from map based measurements that commodity-driven deforestation is ≈ 5 MHa/yr accounting for 25% of all forest disruption (see HuID: 96098 ) and that 23 ± 4% of all forest disruption comes from wildfire. See Table 1 and Figure 3 of source material. Uncertainty represents a 95% confidence interval.
Source:		Curtis, P. G., Slay, C. M., Harris, N. L., Tyukavina, A., Hansen, M. C. Classifying drivers of global forest loss. Science (2018)
Dataset:		Average forest loss by driver (2001 — 2015) (Curtis2018_table1_drivers_forest_loss.csv) global resolution
Original Data License:		Science Journals Default License
Added By:		gchure