State of Wildfires 2024–2025

Abstract. Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires globally, yet our understanding of these high-impact events remains uneven and shaped by media attention and regional research biases. The State of Wildfires project systematically tracks global and regional fire activity of each annual fire season, analyses the causes of prominent extreme wildfire events, and projects the likelihood of similar events occurring in future climate scenarios. This, its second annual report, covers the March 2024 to February 2025 fire season. During the 2024–2025 fire season, fire-related carbon (C) emissions totalled 2.2 Pg C, 9 % above average and the sixth highest on record since 2003,…

• MO
  Met Office
• FD
  Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

  Awards: 2020/16457-3, 2019/25701-8, 2021/07660-2, 2023/03206-0
• CN
  Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

  Award: 443285/2023-3
• MD
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

  Award: RYC2019-027115-I
• IB
  Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis

  Award: #968711
• I-
  Innosuisse - Schweizerische Agentur für Innovationsförderung

  Award: 120.464 IP-SBM
• WS
  Westpac Scholars Trust
• EC
  European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Award: 2696930
• NE
  Natural Environment Research Council

  Award: NE/S007334/1
• AR
  Australian Research Council

  Award: IM240100046
• FP
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  Awards: LA/P/0126/2020, UID/04033/2023
• I
  Interreg
• HE
  H2020 European Research Council

  Award: 101000987