Australian Fires and the Role of Weather in Their Numbers

Faculdade de Computação – Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) Campo Grande – MS – Brazil

gabriel.b.gutierrez@ufms.br

Abstract. This paper exposes the correlations between weather conditions and the number of fires in Australia. It will explore the impact of temperature and precipitation variations between 2008 and 2017, with the aim of finding correlations between these variables and the number of fires. The study also used machine learning algorithms to try to predict, given a certain weather condition, the number of fires that will occur on a given day.

Paper

You can read the full paper here.

Code

All models developed and used on this project can be found on the Notebooks folder.

Data

Data can be found here