A REVIEW OF INDIA SCALE ANALYSIS OF FOREST FIRE AND TOXIC EMISSION

Forest is like a backbone to live on earth. Humans are dependent on it for food, shelter, and habitat. Exponentially increasing human population is making pressure on forests and their ecosystem. Although we are greatly dependent on the forest for our day-to-day life still there is the least effort evident from the human side for its conservation. Forest fire is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to various natural causes. With increasing population pressure, humans are trying to develop their habitat leading to patches within the forest. Forest fire is one of the easiest ways of clearing forest cover. The careless activity of humans and lack of a proper management system is making forest fire a threat to human civilization. According to a Forest Survey of India Report, about 50 percent of forest areas in the country are fire-prone (ranging from 50 percent in some states to 90 percent in the others) and about 6 percent of the forests are prone to severe fire damage. In this study it is summarised that in India forest fire occurrence is mostly seen during summer that is in between February - May and the most affected forest type is tropical deciduous forest which is found in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, and West Bengal states of India. As the forest fire rate is very frequent in India, we should plan a proper strategy to control forest fire with the help of previous forest fire data available in some research papers and remote sensing data to be used to prepare nationwide fire history maps for better formulation of forest fire control measures to minimize the intensity and spread. Keywords: Forest fire, India, human civilization.