Wildfires in 2017
The 2017 wildfire season involved wildfires on multiple continents. On Greenland, which is mostly covered by ice and permafrost, multiple fires occurred in melted peat bogs, described as "unusual, and possibly unprecedented". Popular media asked whether the wildfires were related to global warming. Research published by NASA states "climate change has increased fire risk in many regions", but caused "greater severity in the colder latitudes" where boreal and temperate forests exist, and scholars have described "a warm weather fluctuation that has become more frequent in recent decades" related to wildfires, without naming any particular event as being directly caused by global warming.
| 2017 wildfire season | |
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Wildfires burning throughout the Southwestern U.S. (Picture taken on June 27) | |
| Statistics | |
| Date(s) | January–December 2017 |
| Season | |
← 2016
2018 → | |
Below is a partial list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2017.