Wildfire
A wildfire is defined as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, grassland, brush land or tundra, which consumes natural fuels and spreads based on environmental conditions (e.g., wind, or topography). Wildfires can be triggered by lightning, and extreme temperatures or human actions. There have been 384 occurences of wildfires between 1988 and 2022.
Below you can filter if you want to include the wildfires before the year 2000:
Most deadly wildfires
Disasters pose significant dangers and often result in fatalities. The following chart illustrates the locations and timing of the most deadly wildfires. The length of the bar is equal to the total amount of deaths and the colour represents the magnitude. If you wish to explore the deadliest incidents in a particular country, you can utilize the filter. It is important to note that the filter only includes countries with recorded fatal occurrences.Wildfires per country
The colour of a country represents the amount of wildfires that occurred in this country. By hovering over a country, you can see the name of the country and the exact amount of occurrences.
When certain countries have a lot more occurrences than the average, it's tough to distinguish between countries with average occurrences. To understand how these average countries compare to each other more clearly, using a logarithmic scale can help.
Correlation with temperature
There isn't any indicator that suggests that there are more wildfires in the world each year. This, however, doesn't mean that climate change doesn't have any effect on the wildfires.