Classification of Fire Risk Scenarios in the State of Pará Using Multicriteria Analysis

• Enéas Monteiro Sousa UFPA
• Waldemiro José Assis Gomes Negreiros UFPA
• Hugo Pereira Kuribayashi UNIFESSPA
• Jeova Rafael Rodrigues Da Silva MU
• G. N. DeSouza MU
• Marcos César da Rocha Seruffo UFPA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wcama.2026.23625

Resumo

Wildfires in the Brazilian Amazon are shaped by climatic and anthropogenic factors and require decision-support methods. This study proposes a multicriteria model to classify wildfire risk scenarios across municipalities in Pará. Environmental indicators from remote sensing and public databases are integrated with weights derived from the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and ELECTRE Tri-B classification. Municipalities are assigned to low, moderate, high, and critical risk categories. The results support the identification of priority areas for environmental monitoring and territorial management.

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