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Briefing: Climate and Wildfire in Western U.S. Forests

Year of Publication
2014
Publication Type

Wildfire in western U.S. federally managed forests has increased substantially in recent decades, with large (>1000 acre) fires in the decade through 2012 over five times as frequent (450 percent increase) and burned area over ten times as great (930 percent increase) as the 1970s and early 1980s.