Mar 21, 2022
The study defines extreme conflagrations as fires that are extraordinary or unusual - but this definition can differ markedly depending on your location. "If you imagine a peat fire in the Arctic, it's spreading at centimetres an hour. It's not necessarily a raging inferno, but it's unusual and spreading over immense areas because there's no one there to do anything about it," said Dr Sullivan. "A fire like this in the peatlands is an extreme fire, but it's not what you would envisage as being an extreme fire if you lived in California."
Matt McGrath, ‘Global warming and land use change to drive more extreme wildfires’, BBC