The impacts of escalating wildfire in many regions—the lives and homes lost, the expense of
suppression and the damage to ecosystem services—necessitate a more sustainable …

Southern Europe is a highly fire-prone region where extreme fires have often disastrous
consequences on both structures and people. Human activities and fire weather conditions …

Wildfire can cause significant adverse impacts to society and the environment. Weather and
climate play an important role in modulating wildfire activity. We explore the joint occurrence …

Global fire monitoring systems are crucial to study fire behaviour, fire regimes and their
impact at the global scale. Although global fire products based on the use of Earth …

Bushfires are one of the most frequent natural hazards experienced in Australia. Fires play
an important role in shaping the landscape and its ecological dynamics, but may also have …

Mega‐fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately
described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors–climate change, fire exclusion, and …

Growing human and ecological costs due to increasing wildfire are an urgent concern in
policy and management, particularly given projections of worsening fire conditions under …

During the summer of 2017, several megafires in South-Central Chile burned down forest
plantations, native forests, shrublands and human settlements. National authorities identified …

Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable
of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in …

Fire profoundly influences people, climate, and ecosystems (1). The impacts of this
interaction are likely to grow, with climate models forecasting widespread increases in fire …