What Remains
after the burn
Exploring the growing scale of wildfires and its reliance on climate change.
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Justin Espinoza
Visual Communication VI
Visual Communication Design
Arizona State University
A Year In Review
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As global temperatures continue to rise year over year, singed land follows it. 2025 was simply a continuation of a long standing pattern of worsening fires.
In 2025 Wildfires Burnt…
960,869,275
Acres of Land
Than India
The burnt area is 18% larger than the entire landmass of India — the world’s seventh largest country
Similar
To the EU
Roughly equivalent to the entire European Union — all 27 member states combined, scorched in one year
42%
Of the U.S.
42% of the United States — nearly half the country, reduced to ash in a single fire season
A Global View of Wildfires in 2025
In 2025, wildfires scorched land across nearly every inhabited continent. The map below shows the total area burned in each country. By hovering over any nation you can see the total land burnt there. Darker shades indicate higher burn areas, with the most severely affected regions concentrated across Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia.
* A hectare is a unit of land area equal to 10,000 square meters — roughly the size of a standard city block. One million hectares is about the size of a small U.S. state like Connecticut. *
This Isn't a New Problem.
Since long before the turn of the century, wildfires on our planet have continued to grow more severe.