UK Wildfire Trends

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UK Wildfire Trends
August 17, 2021
 

By Paul Homewood

 

As everybody knows, wildfires are getting worse. After all it’s obvious, innit? Heatwaves, droughts and all that.

Well that’s what we’re told, but what are the facts as far as the UK is concerned?

 

The Committee on Climate Change included these two graphs in their report on the indicators of climate-related risks two months ago:
 

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/research-to-review-and-update-indicators-of-climate-related-risks-and-actions-in-england-adas/

It is a bit of a mixed bag, but the second chart appears to back up claims that things are getting much worse. We can see on both graphs that the vast majority of fire acreage is on moorland rather than forestry. This is not surprising as the moorland areas tend to be much greater and have the added factor of peat bogs, which are very difficult to put out.

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