Researchers estimate that children born in Europe today will experience almost twice as many days classified as “extreme fire weather” as people born about 70–75 years ago. The analysis projects that a child born around 2025 will live through more than three additional years of such extreme conditions compared with someone born in 1950.

The findings, published in *Environmental Research Letters*, quantify the change as an 84% increase in extreme fire-weather exposure for today’s babies relative to their grandparents. The studies also attribute most of the rise to climate change rather than demographic shifts: one report says 86% of the increase stems from climate change, with the remainder linked to increased lifespan. Both outlets present the results as a projection that assumes current climate policies and ongoing warming trends.

Together, the sources emphasize a generational shift in risk, framing the work as an assessment of long-term exposure to wildfire-related weather extremes across Europe.