Taming wildfires in the context of climate change: The case of the United States
The frequency and severity of extreme wildfires are on the rise in the United States,
causing unprecedented disruption and increasingly challenging the country’s capacity
to contain losses and damages. These challenges are set to keep growing in the context
of climate change, highlighting the need to scale up wildfire prevention and climate
change adaptation. This paper provides an overview of the United States’ wildfire
policies and practices and assesses the extent to which wildfire management in the
country is evolving to adapt to growing wildfire risk under climate change.