Borsuk O. Complex Assessment of Forest Fire Danger of Exclusion Zone

The dissertation is based on a comprehensive assessment of the natural fire hazard of forests, fire weather conditions, stocks and fractional structure of forest fuels, development of recommendations for improving the forest fire protection system. The dissertation is based on the experimental data that were obtained as a result of studying the wildfires of the exclusion zone forest lands, assessing the forests fire hazard, and the sanitary state of forests. During studies database «Forest Fund of Ukraine» used (given by the Ukrainian State Forest Inventory Enterprise «Ukrderzhlisproekt»), the results of research on trial areas of forests in the exclusion zone, the data of forest heath, climatic data. Field studies were conducted using standard methods of studying the forest fires and fire hazard, methods generally adopted in the forest inventory, silviculture. According to the results of the research, the features of the forest fire occurrence, peculiarities of fire hazard formation in zones of radioactive contamination have been determined. The weather fire danger has been analyzed and the local scale has been developed. The peculiarities of accumulation of forest fuel and the sanitary state of pine forests in the most common types of fire hazardous forest are studied. The present state of the system of forest fire protection and ways of its improvement are analyzed.