Climate Change and Fire

My Research on Trends in Wildfire and their Connections to Climate Change


State of Wildfires 2024-25

Kelley et al. (2025), Earth System Science Data


Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally

Abatzoglou et al. (2025), Nature Communications


Forest degradation is undermining progress on deforestation in the Amazon

Mataveli et al. (2025), Global Change Biology


Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area

Seydi et al. (2025), Science


Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

Menor et al. (2025), Communications Earth & Environment


Wildfires in 2024

Kolden et al. (2025), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment


Deforestation falls but rise of wildfires continues degrading Brazilian Amazon forests

Mataveli et al. (2024), Global Change Biology


State of Wildfires 2023-24

Jones et al. (2024), Earth System Science Data


Lightning Fires threaten Extratropical Forests

Janssen et al. (2023), Nature Geoscience


Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

Jones et al. (2022), Reviews of Geophysics


ScienceBrief: Living Review of the Link between Climate Change and Fire