CLIMATE AND WILDFIRE IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

• Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 84; no. 5; pp. 595 - 604
• Main Authors: Westerling, A. L., Gershunov, A., Brown, T. J., Cayan, D. R., Dettinger, M. D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA American Meteorological Society 01.05.2003
• Subjects: Analytical forecasting; Climate; Climate models; Climate variability; Climatic zones; Correlations; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Fire history; Fires; Forest fires; Meteorology; Other topics in atmospheric geophysics; Seasons; Summer; Wildfire seasons; Wildfires; United States; North America; America; United States > US; Forecasting; Climate variation; Forest fire

A 21-yr gridded monthly fire-starts and acres-burned dataset from U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs fire reports recreates the seasonality and interannual variability of wildfire in the western United States. Despite pervasive human i...