These Are the Regions Most at Risk in the Next Wildfire Season
Southeast Asia, western Australia and Central America should be closely watched, the World Meteorological Organization says
A U.S. forestry firefighter pulls a hose to a burning home in Deerhorn Valley, California in October.
Photographer: David McNew/Getty Images North AmericaThe giant fires in southeastern Australia are almost extinguished, but dry conditions expected in other regions are putting people in southeast Asia and the Caribbean at risk of future outbreaks.
Temperatures this year are likely to rise above the historical average, even without a presence of a warming El Niño event, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Abnormal drought conditions in southeast Asia, southern Africa, central America, the Caribbean, Oceania and western Australia between November and January are expected to persist.