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A simulation was conducted to evaluate the driving forces of fires and their movement, and a hybrid strategy for wildfire control and geostatistics was developed to evaluate the impact on forests. The various methods we included herein are those based on information, such as knowledge-based AHP-crisp for figuring out forest-fire risk, using such variables as forest type, topography, land-use and land cover, geology, geomorphology, settlement, drainage, and road. The models for forest-fire ignition, progression, and action are built on various spatial scales, which are three-dimensional layers. To create a forest fire risk model using three different methods, a study was made to find out how much could be lost in a certain amount of time using three samples. Precedent fire mapping validation was used to produce the risk maps, and ground truths were used to verify them. The accuracy was highest in the form of using \u201cknowledge base\u201d methods, and the predictive value was lowest in the use of an analytic hierarchy process or AHP (crisp). Half of the area, about 53.92%, was in the low-risk to no-risk zones. Very-high- to high-risk zones cover about 24.66% of the area of the Sirmaur district. The middle to northwest regions are in very-high- to high-risk zones for forest fires. These effects have been studied for forest fire suppression and management. Management, planning, and abatement steps for the future were offered as suitable solutions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi10070447","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,30]],"date-time":"2021-06-30T10:03:19Z","timestamp":1625047399000},"page":"447","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Forest Fire Hazards Vulnerability and Risk Assessment in Sirmaur District Forest of Himachal Pradesh (India): A Geospatial Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Jagpal Singh","family":"Tomar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur 302017, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7219-9440","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nikola","family":"Kranj\u010di\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Hallerova aleja 7, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2361-8036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bojan","family":"\u0110urin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, University North, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0275-5493","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shruti","family":"Kanga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur 302017, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9420-2804","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suraj Kumar","family":"Singh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Climate Change and Water Research, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur 302017, India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Bahuguna, V.K. 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