Investigate the link between BDIFF wildfire records and FWI risk scores

[MateoLostanlen]

Description

The goal of this issue is to investigate whether Franch wildfire occurrences are correlated with FWI risk scores.

The idea is to use the following two data sources:

• BDIFF is the French wildfire database. is a web-based application designed to centralise all data on forest fires in France since 2006 and to make this information available to the public and government departments.

• A first API exposing FWI risk scores is available here: https://github.com/MateoLostanlen/pyro-risk-api

  • For a given location and date, the API returns the FWI score
  • The API is already deployed. Ask Mateo for credentials.
    (- A PR will soon be opened to integrate this work into pyro-risks.)

Tasks

1. Retrieve BDIFF data for 1 or 2 years.
2. Identify when and where wildfires occurred.
3. Retrieve the corresponding FWI risk scores.
4. Compare FWI scores on fire days versus non fire days.
5. Share a first analysis, ideally with a few plots and conclusions.

Particular attention will be paid to days with a low risk. The aim is to investigate the occurrence of ‘significant’ fires (i.e. those recorded in the BDIFF database) when the risk is low.