I got inspired by another post to bring more awareness to the connection between global warming and wildfires. I think we've all seen or experienced the damage that wildfires have on everything, but we're still in the dark on ways we can effectively stop and detain them. One of the reasons why wildfires start is global warming, but we don't really know much about it. Do you think that this a likely reason for wildfires? If not, why?

Although global warming is a large factor of wildfires starting, almost 85% of wildfires in the United States are started by humans, because we leave campfires unattended. However, these probably only start smaller fires. A more natural cause is lighting, when lightning strikes a tree can catch on fire and then a fire starts to spread. These are two examples of wildfires starting not because of global warming.
   However, global warming does have an affect on our forests. Global warming is causing our forests to dry out and become more flammable and summer and spring temperatures are rising making it more likely for trees to catch on fire. In addition, the hotter and dryer temperatures make it more likely for longer burning and larger fires because in addition to dry trees we will have dry soil.  Since 1986, fires have been know to burn for five times longer then the fires back then. With more global warming and temperatures rising we can expect more and more wil dfires each year that last longer and burn wider.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildfire-c … uation.htm
https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/s … dfire.html