000151608 001__ 151608 000151608 005__ 20250319155217.0 000151608 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124504 000151608 0248_ $$2sideral$$a143222 000151608 037__ $$aART-2025-143222 000151608 041__ $$aeng 000151608 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-8816-5816$$aPeña, Guillermo$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000151608 245__ $$aWildfire impacts on Spanish municipal population 000151608 260__ $$c2025 000151608 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000151608 5203_ $$aThis paper analyzes the impact that different kinds of wildfires exert on population size of Spanish municipalities covering the 1986–2015 period, using recent developments in difference-in-differences estimation methods. The goal of the methodology is dealing with different wildfire events on several municipalities by considering as the initial time the first wildfire for all of them. Qualitative and quantitative effects are analyzed. Severity is measured as qualitative indicator by two ways. First, as major agricultural areas affected by dividing the sample in four quartiles according to the extension of the burned agricultural area. Second, as the highest proportion of total burned areas over total municipal area as measure of the rising closeness to the urban nuclei. The repetition of wildfires is used as a quantitative measurement by adding the number of all different wildfires officially recognized occurring during the studied period. The results show that higher severity and repetition lead to less population and a later possible recovery. There are around 260 less inhabitants on average after at least one severe wildfire (around 10–510 less residents with 95% confidence interval). This finding suggests that, as it is also the case of other types of shocks, the effects of wildfires on the urban structure are permanent when they are large enough. Policy implications include a better education and sensitization on the environmental care, not building in wildfire-prone areas and improved alert systems. A better human–nature symbiosis is needed (for instance, employing extensive animal farms for cleaning the grass) for preventing fires. 000151608 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S39-23R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-112773GB-I00$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ-IBERCAJA/JIUZ-2022-CSJ-19 000151608 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 000151608 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000151608 7102_ $$14000$$2415$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Análisis Económico$$cÁrea Fund. Análisis Económico 000151608 773__ $$g377 (2025), 124504 [26 pp.]$$pJ. environ. manag.$$tJournal of environmental management$$x0301-4797 000151608 787__ $$tReplication Data for: Wildfire impacts on Spanish municipal population$$whttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZQ5GLZ 000151608 8564_ $$s1742608$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/151608/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-04-22 000151608 8564_ $$s1633852$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/151608/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-04-22 000151608 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:151608$$particulos$$pdriver 000151608 951__ $$a2025-03-19-14:19:03 000151608 980__ $$aARTICLE