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Alexander Lees has answered Near Certain
An expert from Manchester Metropolitan University in Conservation Science
Yes, climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, areas which have been historically unaffected by wildfires - e.g. undisturbed Amazonian forests are now suffering from them for the first time, however that generality hides a lot of regional variation over the centuries.
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