The U.S. government has conducted studies, which show that outdoor fires spike during holiday periods, and that the period between midnight and 1:00 a.m. on New Years has a particularly high
incidence rate of fires, and fire related accidents, much more so than other times of the winter and the rest of the year.
Not exact matches
We also compared
fire incidence and deforestation
rates before and after the official occupation
of settlements by migrant farmers, mostly from southern Brazil.
If deforestation is higher than the estimate used in this paper, then the relative effect
of drought - induced
fire would not be as large as stated here, and the decoupling
of fire incidence from deforestation
rates would not be as significant.»