**3.4 Forest fire data**

Date wise forest fire information for Assam State was collected from MODIS site (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/firms/active-fire-data) for different locations as point information. A grid of 1 × 1 km dimension was created for the entire forest area and total number of forest fire incidents within each grid was recorded at different temporal interval (annual and multi-year) to generate fire intensity grid and subsequent use (**Figure 3**). Major districts where forest fire was reported during the study period include Hailakandi, Cachar, Karbi Anglong, Kamrup, Kokrajhar and NC Hills. The forest fire frequency for each of the selected forests during the study period was given in **Table 1**.

**Figure 2.** *Flood intensity map of Assam State (www.nrsc.gov.in).*

*Assessment of Ecological Disturbance Caused by Flood and Fire in Assam Forests, India… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94282*



**Table 1.**

*Forest fire events for selected Assam State forests (2001–2011).*
