High-severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent ranges

Agriculture & Biology

• Sierra Nevada (California) 100%
• forest types 40%
• fuels (fire ecology) 37%
• fire suppression 36%
• wildfires 29%
• ecological resilience 18%
• ecological imbalance 18%
• fire severity 18%
• fire regime 16%
• Cascade Mountain region 16%
• wildlife habitats 16%
• ecoregions 14%
• mixed forests 13%
• carbon sequestration 13%
• ecosystem services 12%
• coniferous forests 12%
• global warming 12%
• Quercus 10%
• climate change 9%
• species diversity 9%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• wildfire 17%
• ecosystem resilience 12%
• wildlife habitat 10%
• ecoregion 10%
• carbon storage 9%
• coniferous tree 8%
• trend 8%
• oak 8%
• footprint 8%
• ecosystem service 7%
• warming 6%
• disturbance 6%
• climate change 5%
• climate 4%