Table 2 Environmental variables selected for modeling forest fire-vulnerability risk of Nepal. Only those variables with a variance inflation factor of less than 10 were selected for modeling purposes. See Table 1 for corresponding variable units

Precipitation seasonality

9.40

Precipitation of the driest month

8.57

Annual precipitation

7.04

Precipitation of the driest quarter

5.56

Mean temperature of driest quarter

4.70

Livestock density

4.50

Annual temperature range

3.68

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index mean

2.82

Distance to path

2.43

Forest cover

2.33

Distance to settlement

2.27

Population density

2.25

Slope

2.23

Isothermality

1.99

Distance to water

1.35

Aspect

1.24