Climate Change Indicators: Wildfires

Wildfire acres burned in the United States 1983-2017

Wildfire acres burned in the United States 1983-2017

Number of wildfires in the United States 1983 - 2017

Wildfire acres burned in the United States 1983-2017

I:FireandClimateChange

S - Fire Impacts

N - Fire Impacts

More Wildfires

2013 Gorte_The Rising Cost of Wildfire Protection

2014 Kousky_Lessons from Wildfire from Federal Flood Risk Management Programs

2015 Sanford_The Age of Alaskan Wildfires

2020 Jones_Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires

2015/8 Bushfires, heatwaves and early deaths: the climate is changing before our eyes

2015/8 In Severe Wildfire Season, Expert Sees Results Of Climate Change

2015/8 Large Wildfires Are Now More Common and Destructive

2015/10 “Too Furious For Human Intervention” — Climate Feedbacks Spur Out of Control Wildfires From Indonesia to Brazil

2015/10 Indonesia burning: forest fires predicted to be worst on record

2015/10 Study Ties Warming Temps to Uptick in Huge Wildfires

2015/10 The Rapid and Startling Decline Of World’s Vast Boreal Forests by Jim Robbins

2015/12 New research finds that global warming is intensifying wildfires

2016/5 Here’s the Climate Context For the Fort McMurray Wildfire

2016/6 Spike in Alaska wildfires is worsening global warming, US says

2016/10 Climate Change Behind Surge in Western Wildfires

2015 How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

A strong correlation between temperature extreme and wildfires

Annual area burned by wildfire is increasing rapidly

Wildfire risk

Wildfire smoke has widespread health effects

Wildfires in western US vs average monthly maximum temperature 1980-99

Does climate change cause wildfires?