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A world in pixels: How new research is helping to predict probability of high-severity fire

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:

A new paper by Sean Parks, a research ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, and collaborators paper describes new maps that can help identify areas where high-severity fire is most likely to occur. Live fuel, on average, was the most important factor driving high-severity fire in and among ecoregions. Fire weather was the second most important factor, followed by climate and topography.

Read the brief here.

Read the original research here.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
April 8, 2020

Categories: Publication, Research Brief/SynthesisTags: all regions, extreme fire weather, fire predicability, fire-adapted communities and fire response, Forest Management, forest mapping, forests, fuels management and effectiveness, high-severity wildfire, landscape restoration and resilience, mapping, Model/Tool/Technology, rangeland management, rangelands, Rocky Mountain Research Station, wildfire, wildfire probability, wildfire risk assessment, wildfire risk mitigation

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