The fire season in the far North usually starts early June when ice from heavy winter has melted. However, as global temperature rises, zombie fires had gone prevalent a little earlier in the frozen Arctic and can become more common in the future.
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Most wildfires die out by winter. But zombie fires can smolder underground then reignite in spring.
Research suggests more zombie fires survive after hotter summers, so they may become more common.
Zombie fires happen in northern boreal forests, where the flames feed on peat deep in the soil.
Forest fires don t typically survive cold, wet winters. But zombie fires buck the mold.
In boreal forests just below the Arctic Circle, these rare blazes travel and persist underground, deep beneath the winter snow cover. They bide their time until the snow melts and spring begins, then reignite on the surface and begin to wreak havoc again, starting right where they left off.