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Facts and Statistics: Wildfires

August 2019
Insurance Information Institute
Insurance Information Institute
This online resource provides a comprehensive overview of wildfires in the United States, including the documentation of the most destructive fires by year and graphics analyzing the impact that wildfires have on a state and national level. Read More →

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

July 2019
A. Park Williams, John T. Abatzoglou, Alexander Gershunov, Janin Guzman‐Morales, Daniel A. Bishop, Jennifer K. Balch, Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Earth's Future
This report highlights how anthropogenic climate change has influenced wildfires in California. Read More →

Worst Wildfire Year Since When? More California Acres Have Burned in 2018 Than the Past Decade

November 2018
Dale Kasler
The Sacramento Bee
This article describes 2018 as the worst wildfire season in California in 15 years, citing the loss of 1,627,652 acres to wildfires at the time of publishing.Read More →

California Wildfires: New Records Set by 2018 Fires

November 2018
Luis Gomez
The San Diego Union Tribune
This article describes the devastating effects of the California fires in fall 2018. At the time of publishing, the fires had burned 210,603 acres of land, destroyed 7,072 homes and structures, and led to the evacuation of 265,000 individuals.Read More →

Scientists See Fingerprints of Climate Change All Over California’s Wildfires

August 2018
Kurtis Alexander
San Francisco Chronicle
This article discusses how climate change is influenced the jet stream that drives California's wildfires.Read More →

Wildfires Rage Across Europe as Countries Battle Intense Heat Wave

July 2018
Melissa Etehad
Los Angeles Times
This article describes the heatwave in Europe in summer 2018, and its devastating effects as wildfires have scorched large swaths of land in dozens of countries.Read More →

Heat Records Fall in the Arctic as Fires Erupt in Sweden and Siberia

July 2018
Andrew Freedman
AXIOS
This article describes the devastating wildfires in Scandinavia and Siberia in summer 2018 due to an unprecedented heatwave that swept across the Arctic Circle.Read More →

Anthropogenic Forcings and Attributed Changes in Fire Risk in Western North America and Australia During 2015/16

January 2018
Simon F. B. Tett, Alexander Falk, Megan Rogers, Fiona Spuler, Calum Turner, Joshua Wainwright, Oscar Dimdore-Miles, Sam Knight, Nicolas Freychet, Michael J. Mineter, Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This study finds that for 2015/16 that human influences quintupled the risk of extreme vapor pressure deficits (VPD) for western North America and increased the risk for extratropical Australia. Read More →

Future Changes in Event Attribution Methodologies

January 2018
Peter A. Stott, Nikos Christidis, Stephanie C. Herring, Andrew Hoell, James P. Kossin, Carl J. Schreck III
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
This report covers a range of events, including rain storms, droughts, tropical storms, and wildfires, as well as heat waves. Read More →

Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States

November 2017
Alexandra D. Syphard, Jon E. Keely, Anne H. Pfaff and Ken Ferschweiler
PNAS
Human presence diminishes the importance of climate in driving fire activity across the United States (PNAS)Read More →

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