See Commentary on: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14727 ; See also Letter to the Editor on: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15399

Trends in average annual or seasonal precipitation are insufficient for detecting changes in the climatic fire season, especially in regions where the fire season is defined by wet–dry seasonal cycles and lightning activity. Using an extensive dataset (1897–2017) in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States, we examined changes in annual dry season length, total precipitation, and (since 1945) the seasonal distributi...