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ArticleClimate dynamics2026

Influence of global climate modes on wildfire occurrence in the contiguous United States under recent and future climates.

Theodore R Keeping, Theodore G Shepherd, I Colin Prentice, Karin van der Wiel, Sandy P Harrison

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Theodore R KeepingCentre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5603-6980
Theodore G ShepherdDepartment of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6631-9968
I Colin PrenticeLeverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1296-6764
Karin van der WielRoyal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-9365-5759
Sandy P HarrisonGeography & Environmental Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5687-1903

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Abstract

Predictable modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), have a major influence on regional weather patterns, an important control on wildfire occurrence. Although these global climate modes have been associated with historical variability in wildfire occurrence in the United States and are used to forecast seasonal wildfire risk, precise information about the spatial pattern and magnitude of their influence is lacking and the satellite record of wildfires is too short to address these issues. Here we use wildfire occurrence model with a large ensemble of 1600 simulated years from EC-Earth3 in a recent climate (2000-2009) and a future climate corresponding to + 2 °C global warming, to characterise the impact of specific climate modes on wildfire occurrence in the contiguous US. We show that ENSO, the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), and the 1-year lagged Tropical North Atlantic (TNA+1) have the greatest effect on annual fire occurrence-strongly contributed by the effect of these modes on hot, dry conditions in the Great Plains and precipitation in the southwestern US. El Niño is not significantly associated with wildfire occurrence in the northwestern US, contrary to expectation, but is associated with a later (earlier) wildfire season peak in the southwestern (southeastern) US. Under future warming, the AMO and PNA become a significant influence over most of the US, and the magnitude of impact of ENSO and TNA+1 increase strongly. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00382-025-07998-w.

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