• Kankanala Sravani
• Deepthi Guntuka
• Vijaya Bhole

Forests are very valuable natural and renewable resource and have a significant role in human life and the environment. Forests are subjected to various kinds of natural and anthropogenic disturbances, out of which Forest Fire is the most detrimental, bringing about incalculable harms to the extensive forest area. The Adilabad district is covered by forest area up to nearly 50%. It has three important wildlife sanctuaries named as Kawal wildlife sanctuary, Pranahita wildlife sanctuary, and Shivaram wildlife sanctuary. Temporal analysis of forest fires was based on historical data on the incidence of fire obtained from FSI. Based on the frequency of incidence of a forest fire the forest fire occurrence at range level was classified into 3 categories as low, medium and high. For the temporal analysis of the incidence of forest fires, monthly data on the number of occurrence of forest fires from 2006-2016 is analyzed. The incidence of forest fires is monthly seasonal in nature. They are more frequent during the dry pre-summer season especially in the months of February and March. The spatial analysis of the incidence of forest fires revealed that they are concentrated in the central part of Adilabad District in the close proximity to the wildlife sanctuary where the frequency of occurrence is very high. The trend analysis of the incidence of forest fires can be of great use in the monitoring of forest fires, estimation of loss of biodiversity and environmental management strategies.

Forest Fires, GIS

"Trend analysis of Forest Fires in Adilabad District-using GIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.602-609, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901A76.pdf

"Trend analysis of Forest Fires in Adilabad District-using GIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp602-609, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901A76.pdf