Shifting wildfire patterns threaten to alter the status quo, despite the fact that wildfires occur naturally and serve a lengthy role in health of these ecosystems. Climate change has played a significant role in raise the likelihood and size of wildfires around the world. Temperature, soil moisture, and the availability of trees, bushes, and other potential fuel are all elements that influence wildfire danger. As such, all of these elements are linked to climate fluctuation and change, either directly or indirectly. Although human activities like burning campfires and discarding lighted cigarettes are the primary causes of forest fires, hotter weather makes woods drier and more prone to fire. Climate change causes more moisture to evaporate from the earth, drying up the soil and making vegetation more combustible. At the same time, winter frost heaves are melting about a month sooner, resulting in extended periods of dryness in the forests, contributing to wildfires.
Moreover, wildfires send massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which primarily lead to climate change. Though trees can and do grow back after a fire, regenerating carbon requires time, which is essentially what we need in the fight against global warming. With climate change increasing the probability of hot, dry weather in many regions of the world, it may seem reasonable to believe that the annual area burned by wildfires is growing. Furthermore, wildfires have an impact on the Earth’s climate in addition to human and societal consequences. Forests store a significant quantity of carbon. When they burn, carbon dioxide is directly released into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Forests emit carbon dioxide more slowly after burning due to decomposition.