2025 Solar Flare Chances. Solar eruptions occur when the magnetic field lines in a sunspot get twisted and snap, berger says, causing an explosion with three possible outcomes. An image of the sun on july 2, 2023 showing a powerful solar flare.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (cme) will likely become more probable. Solar flares and eruptions will likely increase from now until 2025, as we reach “solar maximum,” writes nicola fox, the director of nasa’s heliophysics division.