Wildfire activity in the boreal forests of Siberia has been increasing over the past 20 years in response to warming temperatures, with several extreme fire years in the past decade. While extreme fire yeas have a strong association with temperature and drought conditions, smaller human-ignited fires occur almost every year, related to agriculture and logging. To better understand the longer-term context of wildfires and fire-climate relationships of central Siberia, we developed a fire history for the Buryatia province, where we collected 25 sites of fire-scarred material throughout the
