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Adel Sahila1, Benedetta Canfora2,3,4,5, Marzia Canzaniello6

  • 1BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo 14, 48009, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. adelsahila@usal.es.

Scientific Reports
|December 5, 2025
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This study uses a wildfire simulator to analyze forest fire dynamics in the Mediterranean. A four-parameter Beta density function effectively models burned area statistics for both synthetic and historical fires.

Keywords:
Beta distributionCellular automataForest fires

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