What Drives Low-Severity Fire in the Southwestern USA?

High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests

(2018) Sean A Parks et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Predicting Potential Fire Severity Using Vegetation, Topography and Surface Moisture Availability in a Eurasian Boreal Forest Landscape

(2018) Lei Fang et al.   Forests

Climate drives inter-annual variability in probability of high severity fire occurrence in the western United States

(2017) Alisa Keyser et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

(2017) Alan J. Tepley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests

(2017) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Fire Effects on Historical Wildfire Refugia in Contemporary Wildfires

(2017) Crystal Kolden et al.   Forests

Factors influencing fire severity under moderate burning conditions in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA

(2017) Becky L. Estes et al.   Ecosphere

Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires

(2016) Camille S. Stevens-Rumann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Climate change and the eco-hydrology of fire: Will area burned increase in a warming western USA?

(2016) Donald McKenzie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Post-fire vegetation and fuel development influences fire severity patterns in reburns

(2016) Michelle Coppoletta et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Repeated wildfires alter forest recovery of mixed-conifer ecosystems

(2016) Camille Stevens-Rumann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Influences of prior wildfires on vegetation response to subsequent fire in a reburned Southwestern landscape

(2016) Jonathan D. Coop et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Historical dominance of low-severity fire in dry and wet mixed-conifer forest habitats of the endangered terrestrial Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon neomexicanus)

(2016) Ellis Q. Margolis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine – dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range

(2016) Marin E. Chambers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Weather, fuels, and topography impede wildland fire spread in western US landscapes

(2016) Lisa Holsinger et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Temporal dependence of burn severity assessment in Siberian larch (Larix sibirica) forest of northern Mongolia using remotely sensed data

(2016) Thuan Chu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Near-term probabilistic forecast of significant wildfire events for the Western United States

(2016) Haiganoush K. Preisler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Drivers and trends in landscape patterns of stand-replacing fire in forests of the US Northern Rocky Mountains (1984–2010)

(2016) Brian J. Harvey et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States

(2016) Arjan J.H. Meddens et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Can low-severity fire reverse compositional change in montane forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

(2016) Kendall M. L. Becker et al.   Ecosphere

Limited conifer regeneration following wildfires in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range

(2016) Monica T. Rother et al.   Ecosphere

Topographic and fire weather controls of fire refugia in forested ecosystems of northwestern North America

(2016) Meg A. Krawchuk et al.   Ecosphere

U.S. federal fire and forest policy: emphasizing resilience in dry forests

(2016) Scott L. Stephens et al.   Ecosphere

Did the 2002 Hayman Fire, Colorado, USA, Burn with Uncharacteristic Severity?

(2016) Paula J. Fornwalt et al.   Fire Ecology

Locally Downscaled and Spatially Customizable Climate Data for Historical and Future Periods for North America

(2016) Tongli Wang et al.   PLoS One

Identifying the location of fire refuges in wet forest ecosystems

(2015) Laurence E. Berry et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Low-severity fire increases tree defense against bark beetle attacks

(2015) Sharon Hood et al.   ECOLOGY

Topography, Fuels, and Fire Exclusion Drive Fire Severity of the Rim Fire in an Old-Growth Mixed-Conifer Forest, Yosemite National Park, USA

(2015) Lucas Harris et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Quantifying influences and relative importance of fire weather, topography, and vegetation on fire size and fire severity in a Chinese boreal forest landscape

(2015) Lei Fang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns

(2015) Van R. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure

(2015) Van R. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Constraints on Mechanized Treatment Significantly Limit Mechanical Fuels Reduction Extent in the Sierra Nevada

(2015) Malcolm North et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Climate Contributors to Forest Mosaics: Ecological Persistence Following Wildfire

(2015) Crystal A. Kolden et al.   NORTHWEST SCIENCE

Reform forest fire management

(2015) M. P. North et al.   SCIENCE

Vegetation, topography and daily weather influenced burn severity in central Idaho and western Montana forests

(2015) Donovan S. Birch et al.   Ecosphere

Fuel treatment prescriptions alter spatial patterns of fire severity around the wildland–urban interface during the Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA

(2014) Maureen C. Kennedy et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA

(2014) Christopher D. O’Connor et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mapping the daily progression of large wildland fires using MODIS active fire data

(2014) Sander Veraverbeke et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Mapping day-of-burning with coarse-resolution satellite fire-detection data

(2014) Sean A. Parks   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling

(2014) Penelope Morgan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Learning to coexist with wildfire

(2014) Max A. Moritz et al.   NATURE

Fire Activity and Severity in the Western US Vary along Proxy Gradients Representing Fuel Amount and Fuel Moisture

(2014) Sean A. Parks et al.   PLoS One

A New Metric for Quantifying Burn Severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio

(2014) Sean Parks et al.   Remote Sensing

Modern departures in fire severity and area vary by forest type, Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades, California, USA

(2014) Chris Mallek et al.   Ecosphere

Double whammy: high-severity fire and drought in ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest

(2013) Melissa Savage et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Climate, fire size, and biophysical setting control fire severity and spatial pattern in the northern Cascade Range, USA

(2013) C. Alina Cansler et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Previous Fires Moderate Burn Severity of Subsequent Wildland Fires in Two Large Western US Wilderness Areas

(2013) Sean A. Parks et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

(2013) Kevin C Ryan et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: response to Williams and Baker

(2013) Peter Z. Fulé et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fuel treatment effectiveness in California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests

(2012) H.D. Safford et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned

(2012) Crystal A. Kolden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Exploring the onset of high-impact mega-fires through a forest land management prism

(2012) Jerry Williams   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Using Fire to Increase the Scale, Benefits, and Future Maintenance of Fuels Treatments

(2012) Malcolm North et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Spatially explicit forecasts of large wildland fire probability and suppression costs for California

(2011) Haiganoush K. Preisler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Both topography and climate affected forest and woodland burn severity in two regions of the western US, 1984 to 2006

(2011) Gregory K. Dillon et al.   Ecosphere

Forest fuel reduction alters fire severity and long-term carbon storage in three Pacific Northwest ecosystems

(2009) Stephen R. Mitchell et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Assessing fuel treatment effectiveness using satellite imagery and spatial statistics

(2009) Michael C. Wimberly et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

(2009) Zachary A. Holden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effectiveness of prescribed fire as a fuel treatment in Californian coniferous forests

(2009) Nicole M. Vaillant et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

LANDFIRE: a nationally consistent vegetation, wildland fire, and fuel assessment

(2009) Matthew G. Rollins   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

An automated approach for reconstructing recent forest disturbance history using dense Landsat time series stacks

(2009) Chengquan Huang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Interactions Among Wildland Fires in a Long-Established Sierra Nevada Natural Fire Area

(2008) Brandon M. Collins et al.   ECOSYSTEMS