## 4 Results
### Soil Erosion Risk
It has to be mentioned that the results of the RUSLE cover a slightly reduced area than the original burned areas due to the slope estimation in the \(LS\) factor. To begin with, the analysis of Schinos burned areas (Figure 5). Figure 5a illustrates that the area has a very low soil erosion risk. In the post-fire state (Figure 5b) the increased soil erosion risk is evident in the area with a reduction of very low to almost 50% area coverage with a main concentration in an axis from the north to the southeastern parts of the region. To analyze more, the western part of the area is characterized by concentrations of moderate  
Figure 8: Erosion risk according to RUSLE soil loss for Vilia burned area: **(a)** before the fire; **(b)** after the fire. The erosion risk as classified is presented including the percentage of the burned area total of each area per class. \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c} \hline \hline
**Erosion Risk** & **Schinos** & **Varypomppi** & **Lavreotiki** & **Vilia** \\ \hline Very Low & 0.00–122.44 & 0.00–235.67 & 0.00–42.60 & 0.00–1957.77 \\ \hline Low & 122.44–244.88 & 235.67–471.34 & 42.60–85.20 & 1957.77–3915.54 \\ \hline Moderate & 244.88–367.32 & 471.341–707.01 & 85.20–127.80 & 3915.54–5873.31 \\ \hline High & 367.32–489.76 & 707.01–942.68 & 127.80–170.40 & 5873.31–7831.08 \\ \hline Very High & \textgreater{}489.76 & \textgreater{}942.681 & \textgreater{}170.401 & \textgreater{}7831.08 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 5: Erosion risk classification for RUSLE soil loss (ton/ha/season), presenting each class for each area. to very high erosion risk as well as the southern part with an important concentration on the east-west axis. Moderate (13.04% or 7.43 km\({}^{2}\)) and low (26.19% or 14.92 km\({}^{2}\)) are distributed over the area covering a total large extent. A further analysis associated with the burn severity shows that moderate-high severity prevails in all erosion risk classes while considering that land cover coniferous forests are the most affected. Regarding the burned areas of Varympompi in Figure 6a, the area in the pre-event soil erosion risk was very low. Analyzing the post-fire soil erosion risk as of Figure 6b, very low erosion risk covered 52.37% of the area, especially in the southern and eastern parts. Low erosion risk was distributed over the area characterizing 23.94% of it alongside moderate (11.71% or 8.14 km\({}^{2}\)). The higher erosion risk categories took up the rest, almost 12% of the area, with very high erosion risk covering important parts to the west in the Parthitha Mountain base and around the Afidnes area in the north-central to northern parts. The distribution of erosion risk based on burn severity followed the same trends proportionally as the predominant moderate-high severity category. Assessing erosion risk with land cover, very low erosion risk characterized mostly transitional woodland-shrubs and low mixed forests alongside moderate, and high while very high was mainly spread within mixed and coniferous forests and transitional woodland-shrubs. Proceeding to Lavreotiki, the pre-fire state as in previous cases showed a very low soil erosion risk (Figure 7a). In Figure 7b, the post-fire erosion risk presented an increase with very low and low erosion risk taking up 77.63% or 3.38 km\({}^{2}\) of the area. In the rest of the area, the moderate risk was sparsely distributed (11.90%) while the almost equal coverage of high and very high erosion risk was mainly located in the north-northeastern part of the region. Concerning the burn severity, the erosion risk followed a distribution based on moderate-low severity which covered the larger area. From the CLC 2018 perspective, the very low and low erosion risk was found primarily in coniferous forests and schlerophylous vegetation while moderate, high, and very high was found in natural grasslands. In the last area, Vilia, the soil erosion risk is presented in Figure 8. During the pre-fire period, the area was at very low erosion risk (Figure 8a).