Abstract: In the last few years, the influence of climate change on forest fire regime has become a hot topic of research in China and overseas. The progress in this field has been reviewed from the aspects of data source, study methods, major research contents and conclusions. The current global warming has already had an important influence on forest fire regime. The forest fire frequency and intensity has increased in most areas of the world. Under expected warmer climate conditions in the future, the fire situation will be more serious with more and stronger fires in most areas of the world. However, the fire regime changes in some areas are still not clear due to the difference in regional climate change. The uncertainty of the conclusions under projected climate scenarios is introduced in this paper. The research gap in this field between China and foreign countries and its possible reasons are also discussed. Finally, future research directions are suggested.

Key words: climate change, forest fire regime, fire weather, fuel