Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior

Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior. Malamud, B D, Morein, G, & Turcotte, D L Science, 281(5384):1840–1842, 1998.

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Despite the many complexities concerning their initiation and propagation, forest fires exhibit power-law frequency-area statistics over many orders of magnitude. A simple forest fire model, which is an example of self-organized criticality, exhibits similar behavior. One practical implication of this result is that the frequency-area distribution of small and medium fires can be used to quantify the risk of Large fires, as is routinely done for earthquakes.

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