Between 90% and 96% of wildfires are of human origin, caused by human activity.
EnvironmentEuropean Union
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- The two most commonly cited official figures are 95% (European Commission and EEA) and 96% (EEA, EU-specific), so the speaker's lower bound of '90%' is slightly below the official range, while the upper bound of 96% matches the EEA figure.
- The official sources generally refer to Europe or the EU as a whole; the exact share varies by country and year (in some southern European countries, lightning accounts for a small but non-negligible share).
- Publication dates of the cited official pages could not be firmly established from the search results.