If average July temperatures top 13.4 °C (56.1 °F), there could be a big jump in wildfires in tundra regions such as Alaska's North Slope and the Yukon - Kuskokwim Delta that were once too damp and cold to burn, the researchers found. (climatecentral.org)
«If you look at the fire record of the last 50 years for tundra region in Alaska north of 68 degrees latitude ---- a single fire event doubled the amount of area burned.» (globalclimatescam.com)
I wonder, e.g., if during the LGM there were much less forests than today, perhaps in a warmer future climate more of the higher latitude tundra regions will be covered by forest. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)