This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a Poisson model with the average number of fires per day depending on the Fine Fuel Moisture Code is appropriate.
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