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The State of Wildfires report takes stock of extreme wildfires of the 2025-2026 fire season. It explains how climate and land use change influenced the extent of the world’s major fires and assesses whether events could have been predicted.
The report also evaluates how the risk of similar events will change in future under different climate change scenarios.
This is the third report in an annual series. It’s co-led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the University of East Anglia, the UK Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Speakers included:
Dr Douglas Kelley, Land surface modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Dr Matthew Jones, Associate Professor in Wildfire, Climate and Earth Systems, University of Birmingham
Dr Francesca Di Giuseppe, Principal Scientist, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Dr Chantelle Burton, Senior Climate Scientist in Fire, Carbon Cycle and Earth System Science at the Met Office
Dr Joe McNorton, Land Surface modeller, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Dr Maria Barbosa, Wildfire scientist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology