A new report and visualizations from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows how climate change is fueling more intense and an increasing number of wildfires across the western United States, concluding that better forest management and climate action are the best tools to help limit future fire risks. “Every year, millions of acres of land are consumed by fire in the United States,” the group says in [the] report. “By raising temperatures, melting snow sooner, and drying soils and forests, climate change is fueling the problem. Since 2015, the United States has experienced, on average, roughly 100 more large wildfires every year than the year before … generally we’re seeing more wildfires, more acres burned, and longer, more intense fire seasons … Between 2014 and 2018 the federal government spent an average of $2.4 billion fighting fires every year.” That’s more than twice as much as was spent on firefighting two decades earlier.