Climate warming is likely to have a rapid and profound impact on fi re activity in 
several vegetation zones.Pausas ( 2004 ) analysed data from 350 meteorological stations in 
the eastern Iberian Peninsula covering a time period of 50 years (1950-2000) and 
fi re records for the same area.For the Mediterranean Europe, Pinol et al. ( 1998 ) have 
studied a climatic series of 50 years from a locality in southern Spain and two fi re 
hazard indices, and concluded that an effect of climate warming on wildfi re occur-
rence is evident.He concluded that a clear pattern of increasing num-
ber of fi res and size of area burned during the last century is observed, related to 
increasing mean annual as well as summer temperatures