Extended Data Fig. 1: Annual trends in burned area by continent (Million km²).

a, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for Africa. b, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for Asia. c, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for Europe. d, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for North-America. e, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for Oceania. f, Total annual burned area, trend, and severity for South America. Total annual burned area and severity from MOSEV data¹⁹ for forest, shrubland and grassland cover. Levels of burn severity based on Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) thresholds⁶⁴. Black line indicates long-term annual burned area trend by linear smoothed conditional means shaded area represents standard error with 0.95 confidence interval (ggplot2, RStudio).