In recent years, wildfires in the United States have become increasingly frequent, larger, and more widespread. Research from the University of Colorado Boulder found that there were more fires in the span of a 13-year period from 2005 to 2018 than in the previous 2 decades, with fire frequency doubling on the East and West coasts and quadrupling in the Great Plains regions.1 Certain regions have seen dramatic surges in wildfires in 2025 alone, including in Los Angeles County earlier this year and more recently in New Jersey’s Pinelands.2
