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RISK ANALYSIS
Priority threat and its historical impact.
Climate Change and the processes of human intervention in agro-forestry production in different areas of the country, added to the exponential increase of communities in rural sectors, are determining factors that have increased the incidence of Wildfires that impact populated areas. The speed with which Wildfires spread, the number of families they affect and the environmental impact they generate, positions them as one of the most worrying threats at the national level, even more so considering that they are gaining ground as climate change and the increase in vulnerability and exposure provide the ideal scenarios for their formation and massification on scales never seen before and added to the high growth of urban settlements inserted in forest areas due to population growth and mobility. In particular, there have been major fires in the country from 2012 to 2024 (see table 1), where people have been affected and in which the Chilean Red Cross (Chilean RC) has provided assistance.