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- The western U.S. wildfire season has lengthened by about three days per year since the 1970s due to rising temperatures and snow melting earlier in the season. Elevated temperatures dry out vegetation, which then acts as a tinderbox for fires.
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Jul 24, 2023 · A climate-induced increase in fire activity is predicted in many forests in the western US, and an increase in fire frequency, increased area burned, and increased fire severity is predicted in the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming (Hansen et al. 2020), Sierra-Nevada mountains California (Krofcheck et al. 2017a; Serra-Diaz et al. 2018), central Oregon ...
Nov 2, 2021 · Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire area trajectories.
- John T. Abatzoglou, David S. Battisti, A. Park Williams, A. Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen, Brian ...
- 2021
Mar 30, 2023 · Furthermore, our findings indicate increased elevational synchronization of fire danger in western US mountains, which can facilitate increased geographic opportunities for ignitions and fire...
Aug 22, 2023 · We project exposure to fire-regime change across 65% of western US conifer forests and mean burn severity to ultimately decline across 63% because of feedbacks with forest productivity and...
Jan 27, 2020 · Warmer spring and summer temperatures across the western United States cause early snowmelt, increased evapotranspiration, lower summer soil and fuel moisture, and thus longer fire seasons (Westerling 2016).
- Jessica E. Halofsky, David L. Peterson, Brian J. Harvey
- 2020
Oct 22, 2020 · The growing prevalence of high-severity fire in western US forests has important implications to forest ecosystems, including an increased probability of fire-catalyzed conversions from forest to alternative vegetation types. Key Points.
Sep 17, 2020 · Increasing heat, changing rain and snow patterns, shifts in plant communities, and other climate-related changes have vastly increased the likelihood that fires will start more often and burn more...
