The International Association of Wildland Fire recently stated that "Climate change has already had significant consequences in the global wildfire reality, affecting citizens as well as the global wildland fire community." They also emphasized that "There is already evidence of climate-driven fire regime change in the Northern Hemisphere with fire risk increasing in non-traditional fire-prone countries". One of these regions are the European Alps. Wildfires are an emerging issue that can lead to high damages in protection forests, increasing the risk of natural hazards and resulting in threats for people and high costs up to millions of euros for fire suppression and restoration measures. The recent extremely dry and hot summers in different parts of the Alpine space, e.g. 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018, evidenced the need to be better prepared in order to face the changing fire regime with more intense and frequent fires. In this context, experts in integrated fire management at the 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) in Lisbon, Portugal, in May 2019 emphasized the importance to "include the social dimension of fire in land management approaches by focusing on fire as not just an ecological problem, but an economic and social one". [...]