This year has seen extreme fires swallow up huge swathes of land, destroy homes and threaten livelihoods right across the globe.
Extreme wildfire were once relatively rare events that scientists say have now become increasingly frequent and fierce.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has warned that climate change and land-use change will make wildfires even more frequent and intense in the coming years.
It forecasts an increase of 14% by 2030, 30% by 2050 and 50% by the end of the century.
There have already been many blazes this year - especially in the Americas - but, if we focus on July and August, here's a quick overview of fires that burned more than 1,000 acres.
Africa
At least 37 people have been killed in massive fires in Algeria this month, with the death toll expected to rise. Fires in the mountainous region of Al-Turaif ravaged more than 14,000 acres of vegetation.
In Morocco, one person was killed and thousands displaced when wildfires broke out in the provinces of Larache, Ouezzane, Tetouane and Taza, burning nearly 5,000 acres.
Europe - Iberian Peninsula
A wildfire in the central Covilha region of Portugal destroyed 42,000 acres, including parts of the Serra da Estrela national park.
Two people were killed in the Murca municipality when 30,000 acres were engulfed in flame.
Earlier in July, several wildfires broke out in Ourém municipality and burned over 7,400 acres, according to a report from EU's emergency management service Copernicus.
In Spain, wildfires have burned almost 620,000 acres, but that figure is increasing as the blazes continue to rage across the country.
A fire in Zaragoza province burned almost 5,000 acres in July. (A fire in June destroyed ten times that amount, while 8,600 acres were destroyed in Malaga.)
Europe
In France, more than 148,000 acres was destroyed nationwide, mainly in the southwestern region of Gironde, where tens of thousands of people were forced to flee.
On Lesbos, a Greek island near Turkey, a wildfire consumed around 4,200 acres in July, according to the European Space Agency. Fires also raged near Athens, on the island of Salamina, in the western Peloponnese, and in northern Greece.
In northern Italy, a blaze broke out near Carso and spread across the border to Slovenia, burning over 5,000 acres. A fire in Tuscany destroyed more than 1,600 acres.
Almost 5,000 acres was destroyed in the Croatian town of Zaton, Copernicus reported.
While 5,650 acres were charred in a Czech national park on the German border.
In Russia, two fires have raged across the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow since early August. Nearly 22,660 acres have been destroyed, according to the Aerial Forest Protection Service (AFPS).
The AFPS has reported about 70 large blazes in total across Russia this summer, with almost a quarter of a million acres burned.
A fire at an ammunitions dump in Berlin, Germany, earlier this month burned a forested area the size of three football pitches.
Americas
A blaze in British Columbia, in Western Canada, burned nearly 2,000 acres in July.
Four people were killed in a blaze dubbed the "McKinney Fire" in northern California near the Oregon border. It charred more than 60,000 acres.
Elsewhere in California, "Oak Fire" in Yosemite National Park burned almost 20,000 acres earlier this month. Yosemite is home of some of the world's largest and oldest giant sequoia trees. In July, almost 5,000 acres was destroyed in a wildfire.
