Vegetation fires can provoke severe damage to the environment as well as considerable economic consequences, such as the destruction of habitats, the burning of wood and costs for combating them. To establish politics for control and prevention, it is necessary to know the profile of fire. The statistics of occurrence of vegetation fires are the main tools to draw your profile. With this data, we can plan to control them more efficiently by reducing costs, time and risk in their combat. The objective of this study seeks to determine the period of the year and schedule of larger occurrences of vegetation fires in the city of Juiz de Fora (MG). For that a 10 year temporary series was used (1995 - 2004) with data of occurrences of fires and climatic elements in the city. According to the results, the period from June to October as the normal fire season was characterized. Hourly, from 10:00 to 20:00 hours the largest number of occurrences was concentrated and peaks were between 15:00 and 16:00 h.
Fires; Schedule; Period of the year
