Two of the main natural hazards that Croatia has are the forest fires, floods. With all of this climate change being the main factor of theses hazards occurrences. According to the Climate knowledge portal natural hazards for the country of Croatia they have been impacted by earthquakes 228,349 in the year of 2020. As to oppose to the year of 1996 with about 2,000 of them recorded. Has had a severe split wildfire in July 2017. According to this article the split wildfire that occurred in July 2017 is a very good example of the wildfire-urban interface characteristics which includes the rapid growth and down slope spread to the coastal area that is populated. Just between 2001- 2021 Croatia has lost about 5.76 kha of the trees that where covering from fires and 81.9kha from all the other drivers loss. The years that had a significant lost of trees was 2004 with a 757kha which is about 11% of the trees what where lost due to fires. According to the Forest Fires article within the last past 10 years their has been 330 fires and about 19 of the forest and woodland area where burnt. During the summer months is when it is more highly to have a fire occur. This is located on the Croatian Adriatic Coast.One of the months that is high for the fires is the month of August. Their is droughts that occur every three to five years on an average. It is also dependable on the duration and intensity. Dry
Some of the recommendations that could be taken into consideration are staying away of from buildings, utility wires, fuel and gas lines. This could provocative an explosion and other things that could convert into bigger things. The instillation of the ledge barriers are a good way to keep some of the items in your house safe. This are the shelves that are securing the large heavy items. For fire it is safe to keep all the important items and paperwork together and prepared just in case of evacuations. In some cases you don't get a couple hours to get your items ready you are just just told right on the spot. Have a stash of emergency kit and as well food that are a must have at always. Such as having water bottles, canned food and other things that are good to have.
I would risk those who are part of the coastline and also where mainly forest are located at. The most fire-propane area located in Croatia are in the Adriatic Sea Coastline which there is a together a surrounding hinterland and islands. I would help prepare them by giving them the necessary items so they could be prepare for anything. Croatia's has frequent earthquakes that range from 2 - 2.5 magnitude on the Richter scale and their was one on September 3 of 1.3 magnitude ( volcanodiscovery). Earthquakes in Croatia could cause damage to the structures and loss of lives. Their was an earthquake in 2020 of a 6.4 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit the region of Petrinja near Sisak, in the Center of Croatia. This one caused a lot of damage to infrastructure, buildings and loss of life ( Gov.uk). Croatia is on a major fault line where some experts have thought of Croatia being activally because of where it is located. Their is about 200 earthquakes that happen in Croatia yearly but if the series of earthquakes are taken into consideration theirs more of them happening. According to the USGS, has posted an event page providing more details. Perceived shaking for the earthquake was very strong. The preliminary PAGER report is Orange for economic losses, indicating significant damage is likely and the disaster is potentially widespread. People are able to view this daily and see what is going on around them. Its important to educate the people around with earthquakes and what they need to be prepared for before and also after the earthquake has finished. Currently not all the buildings in Croatia are earthquake built resistant, not until 1960's when the 6.1 earthquake rocked Macedonia (how to prepare for qaukes ).
https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/croatia/vulnerability#:~:text=Croatia%20is%20also%20at%20risk,as%20to%20wider%20population%20health. https://www.climatechangepost.com/croatia/forest-fires/
https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3143/2022/
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/country/HRV/?
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