Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2021)

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

  • John T. Abatzoglou,
  • David S. Battisti,
  • A. Park Williams,
  • Winslow D. Hansen,
  • Brian J. Harvey,
  • Crystal A. Kolden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00299-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Reduced fuel availability will only moderately diminish projected near-term increases in climate-driven forest fire area in the Western US, according to a macroscale climate–fire model.