# Wildfire smoke causes nearly 100,000 excess deaths a year — UN

https://mins.news/en/item/49094

- TASS, 2026-09-08 03:11 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://tass.com/non-political/2183887

> The World Meteorological Organization says wildfire smoke caused nearly 100,000 additional deaths annually from 2010 to 2018. Extreme fire-smoke events have tripled since the 1990s, while standard risk models may underestimate related mortality by as much as 93% because they do not adequately reflect smoke toxicity.