Climate-Driven Changes in Wildfire Seasonality Across North America
This peer-reviewed study analyzes the impact of climate change on seasonal wildfire patterns, finding that atmospheric dryness is the primary driver of wildfire risk.Read More →
Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the USA under climate change
This peer-reviewed study examines the effects of climate change on wildfire smoke, associated mortality, and subsequent economic damages, which are among the most costly consequences of climate change in the USA.Read More →
Global assessment of historical changes in extreme fire weather: Insight from CMIP6 ensembles and implications for probabilistic attribution to global warming
This peer-reviewed study developed a framework to examine how climate change may influence wildfire events using a multi-model analysis, which confirms an increase in probability and duration in wildfires due to global temperature anomalies.Read More →
A call to refine fire attribution: expanding the FAR statistic to capture the complexity of Los Angeles extreme fires
This perspective examines the causes of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including climate change, human land use, campfires, faulty powerlines, and other human-driven factors, and suggests improvements to statistical analyses.Read More →
Growing human-induced climate change fingerprint in regional weekly fire extremes
This peer-reviewd study examines the causal links between human induced climate change and wildfires, finding that warming increased the probability of wildfires by ~5%/decade between 2002-2015. Read More →
Attributing Human Mortality from Fire PM2.5 to Climate Change
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors assess the impact of climate change on global mortalities that can be attributed to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generated from wildfires. Read More →
Increasing frequency and intensity of the most extreme wildfires on Earth
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors assess the frequency of extreme wildfire events, and find that the frequency of >99.99th percentile events has increased by 2.2x between 2002 and 2023.Read More →
Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Mortality Burden in the US Under Future Climate Change
This study projects increased mortality in the U.S. due to exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke under future climate change scenarios, and projects changes in smoke PM2.5 concentrations and their health impacts.Read More →
Climate change strongly affects future fire weather danger in Indian forests
This peer-reviewed study quantifies the impact of such changes on the fire weather of Indian forests and finds that fire risk increases in dry climate forests but may be reduced in humid forests, suggesting the importance of regional mitigation.Read More →
Extratropical forests increasingly at risk due to lightning fires
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors examine fire ignition, and show that 77% of the burned area in extratropical forests stems from lightning. These areas are expected to experience between 11 and 31% more lightning per degree of warming.Read More →