Fuel aridity emerges as dominant driver of severity in recent Canadian wildfires
Spatial pattern of high–burn severity days and 2023 anomaly. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ado1006 A team of forest management specialists affiliated with various institutions across Canada has found that fuel aridity has been the most influential driver of burn severity in wildfires in Canada over the past several decades. In their paper published in the
Raleigh Byron
January 5, 2025