Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe

Photo: A smoke plume at sunset on the 8 Ball Fire near Clarendon, Texas. Photo by Texas A&M Forest Service Texas -February 18, 2026. Photo credit: National Interagency Fire Center via Flickr. Public Domain. Article by Seth Borenstein. AP News – updated February 18, 2026. Research article:  Science Advances.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy — ideal to spark extreme wildfires — has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows. And more than half of that increase is caused by human-caused climate change, researchers calculated. What this means is that as the world warms, more places across the globe are prone to go up in flames at the same time because of increasingly synchronous fire weather […]

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