Forest fire is the uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion of natural vegetation posing a great threat towards the environment. Being a natural phenomenon, it is impossible for mankind to prevent it. There is a need for early forecasting, quick detection and prompt action for controlling such phenomena for protecting the ecosystem. In this book, a predictor model which is able to predict forest fires are derived using soft computing and machine learning techniques. The dataset consists of 517 records of time series data for Montesinho natural park, in Portugal. To find some of the critical...