“…Several studies have conducted temporal assessments of fire severity at local‐to‐ecoregional spatial extents (Miller, Knapp, et al, 2009; Miller & Safford, 2012; Miller, Skinner, et al, 2012; Mueller et al, 2020; Reilly et al, 2017; Singleton et al, 2019; Stevens et al, 2017), and to a lesser degree, have spanned large portions of the western US (Abatzoglou et al, 2017; Dillon et al, 2011; Keyser & Westerling, 2017; Picotte et al, 2016). These studies have typically examined either temporal trends in fire severity (e.g., Singleton et al, 2019) or climate's influence on annual fire severity (e.g., Abatzoglou et al, 2017) but not both (except for regional studies conducted by Mueller et al, 2020 & Reilly et al, 2017). Moreover, these studies provide conflicting evidence on recent changes in fire severity.…”