Zonificación de Amenazas por Incendios Forestales en el Municipio de San Juan de Rioseco Cundinamarca Según Metodología IDEAM

Abstract

Forest fires are a problem worldwide, in Colombia usually, between January and March there are the highest number of deforestation alerts and fire outbreaks of the entire year, considering that it is a season in which rains are scarce.

That is why zoning was carried out due to the threat of forest fires in the municipality of San Juan de Rioseco located in the department of Cundinamarca, using as the main tool the protocol for the creation of fire risk zoning maps of the vegetal cover scale. . 1:100,000 issued by IDEAM. Where, the step by step established for the preparation of a final map that categorizes the threat of forest fires in the ARCGIS pro program was followed.

The primary information used to create the maps of precipitation, temperature, road accessibility, soil cover and others was obtained from several geoportals, which were necessary for the next stage called vegetation susceptibility to fires, where maps of the classification by fuel type, fuel duration and total fuel load. From this, the final map was obtained by executing the formula proposed in the protocol and it was identified that in large part the municipality is in a "very high" category of threat from forest fires.

Finally, it is concluded that the use of GIS tools and the evaluation of the threat of forest fires can be very useful for public and private entities, achieving an update of information and encouraging the creation of a prevention and mitigation plan taking into account takes into account the threat categorization according to the specific area of the municipality.