Table 2 Performance of the various models, differing by their machine learning model as well as the provided features. The best performing model is in bold.

From: Global lightning-ignited wildfires prediction and climate change projections based on explainable machine learning models

Model #

Features

Model Type

ROC AUC

Accuracy

F1 Score

Precision

Recall

 

Vegetation, meteorologic, and anthropogenic factors

Fire history

Fire weather indices

Spatio-temporal data

      

Model 1

v

   

Logistic Regression

0.798

0.798

0.806

0.801

0.812

v

   

XGBoost

0.877

0.877

0.881

0.880

0.882

v

   

Random Forest

0.829

0.828

0.828

0.856

0.802

v

   

AutoGluon

0.875

0.876

0.880

0.878

0.882

Model 2

v

v

  

Logistic Regression

0.798

0.798

0.806

0.801

0.811

v

v

  

XGBoost

0.887

0.887

0.891

0.890

0.892

v

v

  

Random Forest

0.832

0.831

0.831

0.860

0.804

v

v

  

AutoGluon

0.885

0.886

0.890

0.888

0.892

Model 3

v

 

v

 

Logistic Regression

0.805

0.805

0.812

0.811

0.812

v

 

v

 

XGBoost

0.885

0.885

0.889

0.888

0.890

v

 

v

 

Random Forest

0.831

0.830

0.831

0.856

0.808

v

 

v

 

AutoGluon

0.883

0.883

0.887

0.886

0.888

Model 4

v

v

v

 

Logistic Regression

0.805

0.805

0.811

0.812

0.811

v

v

v

 

XGBoost

0.893

0.893

0.896

0.896

0.896

v

v

v

 

Random Forest

0.835

0.834

0.835

0.860

0.811

v

v

v

 

AutoGluon

0.891

0.891

0.895

0.896

0.894

Model 5

v

v

v

v

Logistic Regression

0.821

0.821

0.827

0.827

0.827

v

v

v

v

XGBoost

0.916

0.916

0.919

0.916

0.922

v

v

v

v

Random Forest

0.846

0.846

0.848

0.867

0.829

v

v

v

v

AutoGluon

0.913

0.913

0.916

0.914

0.919