Around half a million homes were exposed to large fires in the US, with 68% of exposures and a sixfold increase during 2001–2020 in the West Survivability declined by 12% in the western US in the...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) contributed to extreme hourly rainfall at 76% of stations in the contiguous United States since 1980 Local Atlantic TCs contribute to hourly extremes in eastern CONUS, whi...

Heatwaves are associated with a disproportionate share of wildfire activity and trends in the western US in recent decades.

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...

Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests over recent decades. However, high-severity fire—fire that kills all or most trees—is also an important metric of fire activity given its d...

Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...

The strongest climate change-driven trends in ETo are found in the water-limited southwestern and central regions of North America Forced increases in ETo have primarily been driven by increased ...

Wildfire burned area was 367 Mha in 2024, ranked 17th since 2001. An estimated 1,965 Tg C was released from these fires, 41% of which came from the Americas, far exceeding their usual 25% contribution...

Scientific Data - CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset

A heatwave with record-breaking intensity, persistence, and spatial extent affected Mexico and Texas during June 2023 Circulation, record-low soil moisture, and their interaction explain most of ...

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...