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: The paper deals with the introduction of DSS tools and methodological approach that was developed in the framework of a dissertation thesis, aimed at the problem of assessment of forest susceptibility to forest fire. To automate the assessment procedure, a decision-making model was developed in the NetWeaver environment, organized in a hier-archical network. In the assessment, an approach was applied that is based on multicriteria assessment of various factors, assumed to have an impact on the occurrence and spread of fire in the natural environment. In the article original results of susceptibility assessments are presented, performed for an area situated in the Slovensky raj Mts. territory, which is known as the most fire risky territory in Slovakia. Keywords : NetWeaver; protection of persons and property Over the past decade, the number of forest fires in the world has been constantly increasing. It is now believed that due to the forest fires on aver-age 600,000 ha of forests are damaged or even de-stroyed each year (Albers 2012). In Europe, and also all over the world, the situa-tion regarding the occurrence of fires has been con -stantly deteriorating, and the consequences can be severe. In the current situation, there arise suitable conditions for fires due to several factors. Natural and particular climatic factors usually predeter-mine the likelihood of forest fires, the management measures in forests are other factors influencing the accumulation of fuel in the forest, and especial -ly because of the suppression of fire and gradually expanding transit zones between urban areas and the natural environment (Rigolot et al. 2009, Ve-lez 2009). Consequently, the distribution of forest fires in the area is specified not only by the climate but also by socio-economic factors (San Miguel, Camia 2009; Majlingova, Sedliak 2010). And the socio-economic factors can be described as the most important in terms of the fire occurrence.The need to tackle the problem of forest fires seems not to be so urgent in conditions of Central Europe, see the trend of fire occurrence in the natural envi-ronment in Slovakia in Fig. 1, but there is an assump-tion that it is going to be a real problem, in particu-lar in view of the actual prognoses of climatologists about global warming, and also weather extremes (in case of fires the long-lasting periods of drought and warmth) that occur more and more frequently. The fire risk analyses are an important compo-nent of risk prevention and risk management. Here we introduce two approaches to an assessment of the risk components – the susceptibility to fire, us-

Automated procedure to assess the susceptibility of forest to fire