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

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.

Multiple wildfires burned across the western United States in early September 2017, sending smoke drifting across the country.

Hot and dry conditions across the Southern Plains proved perfect for the spread of large wildfires across the prairie in March.

A massive wildfire in northern Alberta has grown out of control, causing the evacuation of Fort McMurray, a city of 80,000 people. What climate conditions fostered this unusual early-season fire?