Forest Fires, Flash floods, Tsunamis Final

Tsunamis: None

Forest Fires:
2020:
February 21-25: Mt Pulag, Bengue, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya
-191.54 ha
-160,547 trees
April 7: Rizal, Antipolo
-several wildfires

2019:
January-March: CAR (Baguio) with 90 INCIDENTS
-140,000 hectares

2018:
CAR (Baguio) - 151 INCIDENTS
-20,880 hectares

2017:
CAR - 64 INCIDENTS
-13,509 hectares
March-May: Antique with 3 INCIDENTS (Panay Mountain Range)
-154 ha

2016:
CAR-178 INCIDENTS
-6,100 hectares

2014:
August 16: Baler, Aurora
-50 hectares
March 20: Mt. Banahaw, CALABARZON
-100-140 ha
January-March: Antique with 16 INCIDENTS (Panay Mountain Range)
-845.39 ha
February-April: Iloilo with 5 INCIDENTS (Panay Mountain Range)
-130 ha

Summary:
Nueva Vizcaya-1
Antipolo-1
Rizal - 1
CAR (Benguet, Ifugao, Baguio)-485
Antique-19
Iloilo-5
CALABARZON (Aurora, Quezon)-2

Frequency:
There is no definite number of occurrences of the forest fires in the Philippines,
since it happens abruptly especially during summer. The most number of incidents
that had occur in the past 10 years is 2016 with 178 incidents in just one region.
While 2020, has the least number, with only 3 incidents.

Pattern:
This disaster is usually prevalent during summer. Some materials in the forest
become highly inflammable during this season, resulting to huge fires. Forest fires
can record incidents with no minimum and maximum number, it can ever reach hundreds
in just a year even in only one area.

Effects:
Forest fires have adverse effects especially when it is widespread, affecting
houses, buildings, or any place that humans and animals reside. Even if the fires
covered a small area, it will affect the plants, especially the trees that helps in
stabilization. It will also affect the wildlife animals, it could probably kill
them or they will lose their habitat, resulting to endangerment or extinction. This
can also affect the economy in some ways. The gas the fires omit (carbon dioxide,
can lead to greenhouse gas) produces pollution affecting everyone’s health and this
can last longer than expected.

FLASHFLOODS: same as JARED’s typhoons

Frequency:
In the Philippines, flash floods usually happen during and after the typhoon. The
level of floods depend on the amount of rainfall and the area affected (Urban or
Rural areas). It happens depending on the typhoon or typhoons that hit the country.

Pattern:
Same with the typhoon, there is no stable pattern of flash floods. In our country,
the dominant cases of its occurrences are during the most active months of
typhoons.

Effects:
Flash floods mostly affect the humans, environment, and the economy. Houses being
flooded (sometimes with mud) affecting their appliances and other stuff, making
them homeless. As floods affecting the whole land area itself, the environment will
be destroyed, and some habitats too. For the economy, agricultural and urban areas
will be mostly affected.