A 21-yr gridded monthly fire-starts and acres-burned dataset from US Forest Service, Bureau
of Land Management, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs fire reports …

Long-term antecedent climate conditions are often overlooked as important drivers of
wildfire variability. Fuel moisture levels and fine-fuel productivity are controlled by variability …

The relationship between annual variation in area burned and seasonal temperatures and
precipitation was investigated for the major climate divisions in California. Historical …

Fire weather indices are commonly used by fire weather forecasters to predict when weather
conditions will make a wildland fire difficult to manage. Complex interactions at multiple …

Very large wildfires can cause significant economic and environmental damage, including
destruction of homes, adverse air quality, firefighting costs and even loss of life. We examine …

Despite a widely noted increase in the severity of recent western wildfires, this trend has
never been quantified. A twenty‐year series of Landsat TM satellite imagery for all forest …

Increased wildfire activity (eg number of starts, area burned, fire behaviour) across the
western United States in recent decades has heightened interest in resolving climate–fire …

Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …

California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn
wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong …

Twentieth‐century wildfire suppression and land management policies have promoted
biomass accumulations in some ecosystems in the western United States where wildfire is a …