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Wildfire occurrences are multi-factorial in nature, and isolating the relative contribution of each driver remains a challenge. In this study, we quantify the relative importance of each driver of fire by analyzing annual spatial regression models of fire occurrence across Cambodia from 2003 to 2020. Our models demonstrated satisfactory performance, explaining 69 to 81% of the variance in fire occurrence. We found that deforestation was consistently the dominant driver of fire across 48 to 70% of the country throughout the study period. Although the influence of low precipitation on fires has increased in 2019 and 2020, the period is not long enough to establish any significant trends. During the study period, wind speed, elevation, and soil moisture had a slight influence of 6\u201320% without any clear trend, indicating that deforestation continues to be the main driver of fire. Our study improves the current understanding of the drivers of biomass fires across Cambodia, and the methodological framework developed here (quantitative decoupling of the drivers) has strong potential to be applied to other fire-prone areas around the world.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15133388","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,4]],"date-time":"2023-07-04T01:38:32Z","timestamp":1688434712000},"page":"3388","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Deforestation as the Prominent Driver of the Intensifying Wildfire in Cambodia, Revealed through Geospatial Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Min-Sung","family":"Sim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Automotive Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan-si 38541, Republic of Korea"}]},{"given":"Shi-Jun","family":"Wee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7777-2119","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Enner","family":"Alcantara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Science and Technology, S\u00e3o Paulo State University, S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos 01049, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1299-1724","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Edward","family":"Park","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore"},{"name":"Earth Observatory of Singapore, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1015","DOI":"10.1139\/cjfr-2019-0094","article-title":"Scientists\u2019 warning on wildfire\u2014A Canadian perspective","volume":"49","author":"Coogan","year":"2019","journal-title":"Can. 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