The exceptional Nordic forest fire season 2018 in the context of climate change

Abstract

The exceptional Nordic forest fire season 2018 in the context of climate change A number of large forest fires made headlines in Sweden during the exceptionally warm and dry summer of 2018. Also, in Finland, fire departments were busy with numerous wildfires. It appears that weather conditions in 2018 were very favourable for the occurrence of fires. In the future, similar summers are expected to occur somewhat more often.