ArticleCommunications earth & environment2023
Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States.
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- Near-term, geospatial opportunity for biomass carbon storage to address the wildfire and climate crises.Science advances · 2026Article
- Prescribed fire is unlikely to reduce net PMProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Optimal features assisted multi-attention fusion for robust fire recognition in adverse conditions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records - GlobalRx.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The use of fire to preserve biodiversity under novel fire regimes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Perceived wildfire risk and past experiences with wildfire smoke influence public support for prescribed burning in the western conterminous United States.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes.Communications earth & environment · 2025Review
- Temporal and spatial pattern analysis of escaped prescribed fires in California from 1991 to 2020.Fire ecology · 2025Article
- Effects of Coexposure to Air Pollution from Vegetation Fires and Extreme Heat on Mortality in Upper Northern Thailand.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States.Communications earth & environment · 2023Article
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Abstract
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have diverse anthropogenic causes-including the legacy of fire suppression policies, increased development in high-risk zones, and aridification by a warming climate. However, the intentional use of fire as a vegetation management tool, known as "prescribed fire," can reduce the risk of destructive fires and restore ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire implementation is subject to multiple constraints, including the number of days characterized by weather and vegetation conditions conducive to achieving desired outcomes. Here, we quantify observed and projected trends in the frequency and seasonality of western United States prescribed fire days. We find that while ~2 C of global warming by 2060 will reduce such days overall (-17%), particularly during spring (-25%) and summer (-31%), winter (+4%) may increasingly emerge as a comparatively favorable window for prescribed fire especially in northern states.
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