GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wildfires occur when vegetated areas are set alight and are particularly common during hot and dry periods. They can occur in forests, grasslands, brush and deserts, and with sufficient wind can rapidly spread. Unchecked, such fires can cause devastation to forests and other areas of vegetation.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Wildfire Disaster is an unintentional fire that spreads in no time in natural areas like forests. It normally spreads in vegetation areas and can cause extreme damage to human life and property but has aftereffects on animals, vegetation, and ecosystems as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -The menace of fire as a potential disaster is with us every day. Most of the deaths that have resulted from fires could have been avoided. Fires have become increasingly life threatening hazards, because within a few minutes it can kill and destroy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Disasters are classified into natural disasters, man-made disasters, and hybrid disasters.

Detailed explanation-5: -Wildfire, also called forest, bush or vegetation fire, can be described as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, grassland, brush land or tundra, which consumes the natural fuels and spreads based on environmental conditions (e.g., wind, topography).