Written by Sarah Meier Introduction In recent years news coverage of orange-coloured skies, evacuations, and devastation caused by wildfires has become all too familiar. Even though one tends to only hear about the most calamitous and tragic of fires, every summer Southern European countries experience a large number of fires of varying degrees of seriousness (San-Miguel-Ayanz et al., 2022). These events can be highly disruptive and destructive, affecting many sectors of the economy, such as forestry and agriculture (Butry et al., 2001; Rego et al., 2013), industry and construction (Kramer et al., 2021; Wang et al., 2021), and recreation and […]