 In 2017, Balch, Bethany A. Bradley, John T. Abatzogloue, Chelsea Nagya, Emily J. Fuscod, and Adam L. Mahooda published a paper which examined humans' role in the recent increase in wildfires in the past few decades.Wildfires are now being set during all seasons and in places where fire is not naturally occurring.The result of this paper found that wildfires are the consequence of lightning (16%) and humans (84%).