2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117861
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Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015

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“…These spatial differences may obfuscate annual fire severity metrics such as SEV mean and HS prop when evaluating large ecoregions and western US forests as a whole and could partially explain why there is not a clear scientific consensus regarding temporal trends in fire severity (cf. Miller & Safford, 2012; Mueller et al, 2020; Picotte et al, 2016).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…These spatial differences may obfuscate annual fire severity metrics such as SEV mean and HS prop when evaluating large ecoregions and western US forests as a whole and could partially explain why there is not a clear scientific consensus regarding temporal trends in fire severity (cf. Miller & Safford, 2012; Mueller et al, 2020; Picotte et al, 2016).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…However, there was considerable interannual variation, with extensive losses in 2017 and 2018, and with the Camp Fire in Paradise, California heavily influencing the overall trend. Widespread drought conditions in the western United States in 2020, along with climactic and demographic trends, resulted in extensive areas burned and building losses in many western states [9, [11][12][13]23,45], with over 17,663 buildings destroyed as of 30 November 2020 [46].…”
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“…More importantly, the SW GACC is a region with significant trends in every observed wildfire parameter. This could be because of increasing temperature, and vapor pressure deficit trends and decreasing precipitation trends since 1984 [37].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The MTBS database is a well-established source for wildfire research. Various studies have implemented MTBS data with varying periods and study regions, to understand climate-wildfire relationships [7,17,24,[34][35][36][37], analyze human influences on wildfire regimes [23,26,27,38], large wildfire trend identification within ecoregions [21,39], analyze the repercussions US wildfire management had on wildfire regimes [40], understand the role of how fuel treatments affect wildfire size and risk [41], and for the development of wildfire models to better predict large wildfire occurrences across the US [42]. However, some notable limitations of the MTBS database are that there is a~2-year lag in the inclusion of data (limiting this study to 2017), islands of no detectable change are included in the derived fire perimeters, phenology offsets are not automatically applied to some spectral indices, and the existence of highly variable classification thresholds for mapping burn severity [43].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%