Reacción a "The frequency of certain fires in cities will increase in the coming decades"

The aforementioned research deals with peri-urban and urban fires, including four categories of fires: building fires, vehicle fires, vegetation fires and outdoor activity fires. It deals with information from 20 countries, none of them from Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean; and from the Mediterranean only Greece and Cyprus. It leaves out Turkey, the Maghreb, Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, as well as Mexico and Chile, all of them key countries in terms of fires and especially in the urban-forest interface. It does not address the relationship between the state of the peri-urban environment and the size that a fire can reach.

The main focus of this article is the application of climate change scenarios to these types of fires. Generally, in the case of urban-forest interface fires, these four categories are not mixed together. There are doubts about the impact of electrification on the conclusions regarding vehicle fires.

The main limitation is the exclusion of most Mediterranean countries, Mexico and Chile, as well as the inclusion of very urban aspects (fires in buildings, vehicles and open air) together with those of surrounding vegetation.

It does not reach very evident operational conclusions for the reasons indicated, although it is a subject well deserving of scientific work that contributes to addressing it in a consistent manner.