Wildfires aren't just out West. Climate change brings blazes East

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Wildfires are often thought to be a problem for Western North America, but climate change and other factors are making fires nastier in the East, especially this year.

That’s because of the combination of record drought levels in the Southeast, tens of millions of tons of downed trees from Hurricane Helene and climate change causing the air to suck up more moisture from dead plants to make them more flammable.

With massive Nebraska fires this year, already 2,800 square miles of wildfires have burned so far in 2026 — far more than in recent years.

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