## 2.24.1. Non-peat fires outside cropland and tropical closed forest[¶](#non-peat-fires-outside-cropland-and-tropical-closed-forest "Permalink to this headline")
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Burned area in a grid cell, \\(A\_{b}\\) (km2 s \-1), is determined by

(2.24.1)[¶](#equation-23-1 "Permalink to this equation")\\\[A\_{b} =N\_{f} a\\\]

where \\(N\_{f}\\) (count s\-1) is fire counts in the grid cell; \\(a\\) (km2) is average fire spread area of a fire.

