13,131 Spain’s average number of annual forest fires between 2006-2015. More than half are thought to be started by arsonists.
9,500 Distance travelled, in kilometres, by smoke from Russian forest fires in July 2018. The smoke reached Greenland.
14,000 The maximum number of firefighters deployed simultaneously to fight forest fires during peak fire season in California in 2018.
540 Number of people evacuated from their homes in 2018’s Treuenbrietzen forest fire in Germany.
26m A palm oil company’s fine for burning 10 square km of Tripa Forest, where tigers, elephants, rhinos and orangutans still coexist.
41,000 The area, in square km, of US forest burned by fire in 2015. This is the greatest annual loss to fire in the US since records began.
39m The amount of methane, in tonnes,…