The purpose of this report is to present the main components of fire danger assessments and a broad assessment of fire danger for the main habitat types in Scotland. The aim of this work is to provide insight on the current wildfire regime in Scotland and the information needed to conduct fire danger assessments for the main habitat or fuel types present in Scotland. In particular, the objective of this work is to use literature findings and results of a spatial analysis of land cover and burnt area layers to assess patterns of fire occurrence and of fuel type composition and assess the efficiency of fire danger indices for predicting fire occurrence in different habitat types.

This report has been produced by the D5-2 Climate Change Impacts on Natural Capital Project funded by the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Strategic Research Programme (2022-2027).