A new study found that the Earth’s most well-known and most expensive forest fire was four times more frequent, as they have found in a new study in the 1980s due to human-causing climate change and people going close to Wildlands.
A study in Journal Science sees global wildfire, not an acre, which is the most common measuring rod, but is difficult to calculate economic and human damage. The study concluded that “the climate-linked growth of socially disastrous wildfires”.
A team of Australian, American And German fire scientists calculated the 200 most harmful fire since 1980, keeping in mind the inflation based on the percentage of damage to the country’s GDP at that time. The frequency of these events has increased by about 4.4 times from 1980 to 2023, the lead author of the study, Calum Cunningham, a pyrogephofer at the Fire Center at Tasmania University in Australia.
Cunningham said, “It shows beyond a shadow of doubt that we have a big wildfire crisis in our hands.”
About 43% of the most harmful fire caught fire in the last 10 years of the study. In the 1980s, Globe average two of these frightening fire in a year and a few times a hit four times a year. From 2014 to 2023, the world noted, including average in about nine years, in 2021, noted that in 2015 the count of these disastrous infranos rose rapidly, which “rapidly matched with extreme climatic conditions.” Although the study date ended in 2023, the last two years have become even more extreme, Cunningham said.
Europe and North America lead these economically harmful fire. Cunningham stated that it is particularly worse in the Mediterranean Sea around Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal in the western United States around California, as climate has deteriorated with global warming, due to sudden dryness.
Researchers also found how many times the same fire killed at least 10 people, such as Paradise Fire, 2023 Lahina In 2025 in fire and los angeles.
Cunningham said that often researchers see that one acre ground burns as a measuring rod, but he called that defect because it does not really show the effect on people, does not matter much as economics and life with the field. He said that the fire of Lahina of Hawaii was not big, but it burnt a lot of buildings and killed many people, so it was more meaningful in areas with more than one population.
“We need to target the matter. And are fire that causes major ecological destruction because they are burning very fast.”
But it is difficult to get economic data with many countries that keep that information private, preventing global trends and yogas from calculating. Hence Cunningham and colleague were able to achieve a global economic date of more than 40 years from insurance giant Munich Ray and then associate it with a public database with the international disaster database, which is not complete, but is collected by Catholic University of Lawan in Belgium.
The study paid attention to the “fire season”, which is hot, dry and air conditions that make excessive fire more dangerous and found that conditions are increasing, causing connection with burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
Cunningham said, “We have first found that all disasters occurred during the extreme season. We have also become more common for those conditions as a result of climate change. It is undisputed.” “Therefore, there is a line of evidence to say that climate change is at least making a significant impact on creating conditions that are suitable for a major fire disaster.”
If there is no human-borne climate change, then there is still a devastating fire in the world, but not that, not many, he said: “We are loading dice in a sense to increase the temperature.”
There are other factors. People Cunningham said that Wildland-urban-urban interfaces are called closer areas. And the society is not getting a handle on the dead leaf that becomes fuel, he said. But it is harder to determine those factors compared to climate change, he said.
“This is an innovative study in terms of planned data sources, and mostly confirms the expectations of general knowledge: the fire caused by bad fatal and economic damage occurs in densely populated areas and occurs during extreme fire weather conditions, becoming more common due to climate change,” a geography and environment professor said that it was not.
Not only does the study understand, but it is a bad sign for the future, said Mike Frannigan, a fire researcher at Thompson River University in Canada. Fleenign, which was not part of the research, said: “Since the frequency and intensity of the extreme fire and the chances of disastrous fire increases, we need to do more to get better prepared.”
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