Risk Assessment and Service Benefit Evaluation of Forestry Meteorological Disasters in Guangxi

In order to strengthen the construction of capacity of forestry meteorological services and improve the quality of forestry meteorological services, the national forestry meteorological disaster risk survey and service benefit assessment were carried out from November 2016 to May 2017. A total of 196 risk sites in Guangxi were collected by means of questionnaire survey, expert evaluation and field survey. The results showed that fire, pest and wind hazards are the main types of risk points in Guangxi. The survey showed that there were 77 monitoring stations around the disaster risk sites belonging to the Forestry Sector, which mainly monitor fire hazards, while other disasters had no monitoring point yet. Early warning facilities were still constantly improving. The meteorological disasters that affecting forestry production were drought, gale, and heavy rainfall, and the main meteorological hazard factors were temperature, wind speed, and precipitation. Forest fire prevention, forestry resources development and utilization, forestation and tending demand for meteorological services were relatively large. It was hoped that forestry meteorological service products would be obtained through telephone, SMS and early warning systems. In addition, experts gave an objective evaluation of the contribution rate of meteorological services in Guangxi. The contribution rate of forest meteorological services in the whole region was 8.41%. The scale of Guangxi’s total forestry output value was 31.478 billion yuan in 2016. According to the calculation of this value, the service benefit value had reached 2.647 billion yuan. In conclusion, strengthening the cooperation in forestry meteorological monitoring, technology development, and emergency response, and further improving forestry meteorological services and effective reducing forestry disaster losses are the top priorities of the meteorological department.