"Projected increases in western US forest fires with growing fuel constraints"

April 07, 2022

David S. Battisti

Hosted by Jim Hurrell

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Abstract

The annual forested area that has burned in the western US has increased markedly in the past 40 years. Here we examine the causes and present 30-year projections of future area burned due to climate change, including the potential for fire-fuel feedbacks to limit future fire area burned.