Wildland fires are natural calamities that bring enormous environmental and economic damage worldwide and some of them cause human death. Achieving effective fire fighting is associated with the possibilities of predicting the characteristics of fire behaviour. Special attention needs to be drawn to meteorological conditions and their effect on fire spread in a bed of vegetation. On the other hand, studying the effect of forest fires on the environment is of equal significance for building the strategy and specific actions to be undertaken in the fire fighting process. Especially, Mediterranean climate countries are subjected to higher risks of fires and all the damage they involve
