npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Human driven climate change increased the likelihood of the 2023 record area burned in Canada

Abstract. Large fires in the western United States become highly probable when dry conditions surpass critical thresholds of vapor pressure deficit (VPDt).

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires increased 40% globally from 2002 to 2021 despite a 26% ...

Catastrophic wildfire disasters have surged globally with 43 per cent of the world's worst fires striking in just the past decade, University of Tasmania research published in the journal Science reveals.

A new study looks at trends in global wildfire frequency and damage costs.