DEPENDENCE OF INDICES OF ECONOMIC DAMAGE FROM FIRES ON FIRE DISTANCE

There are investigated the indices of economic damage from fires for groups of rural settlements of the Russian Federation for the period 2019–2021 that are located at different distances from fire division locations. It is shown that with an increase in distance, the ratio of the cost of salvage to the amount of direct material damage and the cost of salvage decreases. And it is also shown that the amount of direct damage from fires per one fire increases.