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Greece tackles forest fires with new risk assessment map
- Greece unveils a National Forest Fire Risk Assessment Map to guide prevention and planning.
- The map ranks municipalities into low, medium, and high fire risk categories.
- It combines two decades of regional climate data and vegetation types to assess risk.
- The tool draws on the frequency of high-risk days from the Daily Fire Risk Forecast Map.
- Officials say the reform enables more precise planning and fair resource allocation.
- Civil Protection authorities call the map a structural breakthrough for Greece’s fire management.
- The map marks a shift from county-based to municipality-based risk assessment.
- The reform aims to address systemic vulnerabilities worsened by climate change.
- The map is the first major fire risk reform in decades in Greece.
- Officials expect the map to help long-term planning and prevention.
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