Future improvements of the risk potential model could be achieved with the integration of weather elements, especially dew point, drought conditions, and wind vectors. Since ancient times lightning and anthropogenic fires have shaped our environments, landscapes, and even human culture. Weather's effects on wildland fire cannot be overstated. Weather elements such as temperature, wind speed, wind direction, and relative humidity have direct influences on the extent and severity of wildland fires. Weather not only influences a fire but in some cases may be the source ignition, for example ground lightning from a thunderstorm.
Large wildfires can modify local weather conditions.
Wildfires are not simply two dimension events but are also strongly connected to meteorological phenomena providing thermal energy and condensation nuclei for the development of thunderstorms. Examples of weather influences on wildfires in both the temporal and spatial domains can be found, from a millisecond bolt of lightning to an extended drought, from a single thunderstorm to global changes such as El Nino. The tools used in this study, remote sensing and geographic information systems are useful tools for analysis of the weather effect on wildfire. From a fire fighters perspective weather is the single most important element influencing the behavior of a wildland fire. Fire fighting efforts to control wildfires relies to a large extent on the cooperation of the weather.