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Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California

We use machine learning to quantify the relationship of temperature and wildfires that grow by >10,000acres/day in California, finding that human-caused warming has increased the frequency of such wildfiregrowth by ~25% relative to the preindustrial era, which will further increase to ~59% by 2100 even ifwarming is kept low (i.e. <2°C).

Paper

Author(s)
Patrick T Brown
Holt Hanley
Ankur Mahesh
Colorado Reed
Scott J Strenfel
Steven J Davis
Adam K Kochanski
Craig B Clements
Journal Name
Nature
Publication Date
August 30, 2023