The resources on this page are from the United Nations and track wildland fires all across the globe. These resources are an excellent way to stay up to date about current global wildfire news.
- UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN)This is a brief history, with lots of links, of the development of the UNISDR Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN), coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Wildland Fire Advisory Group and Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC).
- Global Fire Monitoring Center - Global Landscape Fire News 2025Here is a list of articles concerning current global wildfire news for 2025.
- Our World in Data - WildfiresIf you have questions about how much land is burned by wildfires, whether weekly, per country, or by land cover type, here is a good place to start.
- Yale School of the Environment - A Look at Two Decades of Wildfires Globally in Just 30 SecondsThe Yale School of the Environment shares a NASA video visualizing which areas of the world were on fire each month from January 2000 to June 2019.
- NASA Global Fire MapClick on 'Global Fire Map' for a live map of current wildfires worldwide.