Global Wildfire Season

Compounding drought, heat, and fuel buildup are pushing wildfire seasons past historical bounds across the Mediterranean, North America, Amazonia, Siberia, and Australia. Megafires increasingly force mass evacuations, sever power and transport, and blanket cities in hazardous smoke far downwind. Suppression capacity, aerial fleets, and mutual-aid crews are stretched thin as northern and southern seasons converge.

WHAT CHANGED · LAST 72H

• —Fire seasons lengthening and overlapping across hemispheres, eroding shared aerial-tanker and crew pools
• —Record-scale burns and smoke plumes driving cross-border air-quality emergencies
• —Wildland-urban interface growth raising evacuation and insured-loss exposure worldwide