Event
Alaska Wildfire Season 2015
United States
The 2015 Alaska fire season burned the second largest number of acres since records began in 1940. A 2016 climate attribution study finds that human-induced climate change "may have increased the risk of a fire season of this severity by 34 to 60 percent."
Feb 11, 2016 | AP
Report: Trees scorched by 2015 Kodiak wildfire likely to die
Dec 11, 2015 | Inverse
Alaska's explosive wildfire season is fueling and feeding on climate change
Dec 11, 2015 | Alaska Dispatch News
2015 Alaska wildfire season now 2nd biggest on record
Apr 4, 2018 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
EEE 2015: An Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change in the Alaska Fire Season of 2015
Dec 15, 2016 | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective
Jun 17, 2016 | Climate Central
The Age of Alaskan Wildfires
Jun 20, 2016 | Remote Sensing Applications Center / USDA Forest Service
Alaska Current Large Wildfire Incidents
Jun 20, 2016 | Remote Sensing Applications Center / USDA Forest Service
US Current Large Wildfire Incidents
Feb 25, 2016 | National Interagency Coordination Center
Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook
Climate change may have elevated risk of an Alaska wildfire season this severe
Human-induced climate change may have increased the risk of an Alaska wildfire season of this severity by 34 to 60 percent, according to the fifth edition of "Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective" by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.[1]
