In March 2025, southeastern Korea experienced its largest and most destructive wildfires on record.
Climate change made weather conditions leading to deadly South Korean wildfires about twice as likely
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Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area
Starting on January 7 2025 two large wildfires (the Palisades and Eaton wildfires) erupted in Los Angeles, California. The fires spread extremely quickly over the following week and are among the most destructive of human property in Southern California’s history.
Hot, dry and windy conditions that drove devastating Pantanal wildfires 40% more intense due to climate change
So far this year, wildfires are believed to have burned more than 1.3 million hectares of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland and a hotspot of biodiversity.
Despite known coastal cooling trend, risk of deadly wildfires in central Chile increasing with changing land management in a warming climate
Extreme wildfires in coastal-central Chile have been fuelled by intense and persistent fire-conducive weather conditions in the region since the beginning of the year favouring the spread of severe fires in Viña del Mar (33°S, 71°W) in early February.
Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada
During May and June 2023 Canada witnessed exceptionally extreme fire-weather conditions, leading to extensive wildfires that burned over 13 million hectares.