{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"wildfire-smoke-solar","title":"Smoke: The Solar Yield Risk the Industry Has Not Priced","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/wildfire-smoke-solar","datePublished":"2026-05-21","lastReviewed":"2026-08-18"},"figure":{"id":"global-fire-trends","title":"The two opposite 20-year global fire trends","unit":"%","caption":"Global burned area fell about 27% over 20 years (MODIS) while forest-fire carbon rose 60% (Science 2024) and human exposure rose 40%. The decline is savanna conversion far from PV fleets; the smoke that reaches grids is rising.","series":[{"label":"Forest-fire carbon","value":60},{"label":"Fire exposure","value":40},{"label":"Burned area, 20 yr","value":-27}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/wildfire-smoke-solar/figures/global-fire-trends/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}