Hundreds of wildfires burned through over one million acres of land in California in less than two weeks in August. The resulting smoke has not only worsened air quality across the state but spread across the country.

Wildfires across Colorado during summer 2020 has led to the shutdown of the major thoroughfare across the state and billowed smoke for hundreds of miles.

Terrible wildfires raged through parts of southeastern Australia in the first days of 2020. 

Hot, dry and windy weather helped create the conditions needed for wildfires to explode in northern and southern California in November 2018. 

The 2017-2018 water year came to a dry end in California at the end of September, a year after wet conditions alleviated drought. 

Nighttime temperatures across much of California were record warm in July 2018, part of an accelerating warming trend in the state since the start of the twenty-first century. 

Strong winds whipped wildfires into a frenzy near Athens, Greece, during the end of July, leading to one of the worst wildfire tragedies in the country's history.

Exceptional drought in preceding months primed southern Colorado forests for wildfire in mid-June 2018.

Extremely dry and windy conditions helped rapidly grow and spread wildfires across Oklahoma in April 2018.

Uncommonly large wildfires for so late in the season devastated parts of southern California, especially in areas around Los Angeles.