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Home mostly covered by a debris flow in southern California
Debris flow after the 2003 Old Gran Prix fire
Debris flow after the 2003 Old Gran Prix fire
Debris flow after the 2003 Old Gran Prix fire

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 25 December 2003 near Devore, San Bernardino County as a result of the Old/Grand Prix fires that ran through the San Bernardino Mountains.

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 25 December 2003 near Devore, San Bernardino County as a result of the Old/Grand Prix fires that ran through the San Bernardino Mountains.

Home damaged by post fire debris flow
Home damaged by post-wildfire debris flow in Montecito, CA.
Home damaged by post-wildfire debris flow in Montecito, CA.
Home damaged by post-wildfire debris flow in Montecito, CA.

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 9 January 2018 near Montecito, Santa Barbara County as a result of the 2017 Thomas Fire.

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 9 January 2018 near Montecito, Santa Barbara County as a result of the 2017 Thomas Fire.

Thermal imaging for fire research
Thermal imaging for fire research
Thermal imaging for fire research
Thermal imaging for fire research

Use of thermal imaging helps researchers to understand the relationship of fuels and fire effects, Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, 2019. 

Use of thermal imaging helps researchers to understand the relationship of fuels and fire effects, Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, 2019. 

Burned forest with plants growing between burned trees.
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Hill with grass and shrubs and trees regrowing after fire.
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Field of growing spring grasses with hill in the background.
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Roadside landscape with newly grown grass and green trees.
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 Months After Fire

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Vegetation has begun to regrow in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 9 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Burned forest with a few small plants growing between burned trees.
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Burned hill after fire with dead and charred trees.
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hill at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Clearing and road with burned hillside in the background.
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

Roadside area with burned  clearing and trees.
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire
Hillside at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 Months After Fire

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

A landscape at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area 2 months after summer 2018's Carr Fire near Redding, California, where USGS WERC researchers are studying fire impacts, post-fire vegetation recovery, and post-fire erosion and debris flows.

A man is leaning over and is scooping soil from a wildfire-charred hillslope and placing the soil in a sample bag.
Collecting soil and charcoal sample after a wildfire
Collecting soil and charcoal sample after a wildfire
Collecting soil and charcoal sample after a wildfire

Brett Tipple (University of California, Santa Cruz) collects a sample of charcoal and soil adjacent to a gully forming on a hillslope above Sonoma Creek, which was burned by the Nuns wildfire in October 2017.

Brett Tipple (University of California, Santa Cruz) collects a sample of charcoal and soil adjacent to a gully forming on a hillslope above Sonoma Creek, which was burned by the Nuns wildfire in October 2017.

Home damaged by post fire debris flow
Montecito home damaged by post-wildfire debrisflow.
Montecito home damaged by post-wildfire debrisflow.
Montecito home damaged by post-wildfire debrisflow.

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 9 January 2018 near Montecito, Santa Barbara County as a result of the 2017 Thomas Fire.

Damage from a major post-wildfire landslide that occurred on 9 January 2018 near Montecito, Santa Barbara County as a result of the 2017 Thomas Fire.

soil burn severity
Soil Burn Severity Map for Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017
Soil Burn Severity Map for Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017
Soil Burn Severity Map for Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017

Soil burn severity for the Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon (2017). Soil burn severity is used for postfire assessments to determine flash flooding and postfire debris flow potential for a recently burned area.

Soil burn severity for the Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon (2017). Soil burn severity is used for postfire assessments to determine flash flooding and postfire debris flow potential for a recently burned area.

a field at the base of hills with short green grass, in the middle is a perfect square that is brown and missing grass
Experimental herbicide treatment plot in Idaho
Experimental herbicide treatment plot in Idaho
Experimental herbicide treatment plot in Idaho

The Wildcat experimental treatment site in southwest Idaho at the base of the Owyhee Mountains. The brown square was treated with pre-emergent herbicide and is free of cheatgrass, a few native perennial bunchgrasses were able to establish. This image was taken the first Spring after treatment.

The Wildcat experimental treatment site in southwest Idaho at the base of the Owyhee Mountains. The brown square was treated with pre-emergent herbicide and is free of cheatgrass, a few native perennial bunchgrasses were able to establish. This image was taken the first Spring after treatment.

Satellite image showing Existing Vegetation over the US.
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type
LANDFIRE Existing Vegetation Type

LANDFIRE's Existing Vegetation Type layer from the Data Distribution Site.

LANDFIRE's Existing Vegetation Type layer from the Data Distribution Site.

charred, bare trees on a mountain side
El Dorado National Forest after the 2014 King Fire
El Dorado National Forest after the 2014 King Fire
El Dorado National Forest after the 2014 King Fire

The 2014 King Fire burned 97,717 acres in the El Dorado National Forest and on private timberlands. The fires in these burn areas reduce the forest canopy, exposing snowpack to direct sunlight. This increases the rate of snowmelt and evaporation, impacting runoff and groundwater replenishment.

The 2014 King Fire burned 97,717 acres in the El Dorado National Forest and on private timberlands. The fires in these burn areas reduce the forest canopy, exposing snowpack to direct sunlight. This increases the rate of snowmelt and evaporation, impacting runoff and groundwater replenishment.

A Fire burns along the ground in a ponderosa pine forest in New Mexico
A fire burns along the ground in a ponderosa pine forest, New Mexico
A fire burns along the ground in a ponderosa pine forest, New Mexico
A fire burns along the ground in a ponderosa pine forest, New Mexico

Prescribed fires, such as this one, are used by land managers to restore ponderosa pine forests to more resilient conditions. We are fortunate to be able to occasionally participate in such burns because we are co-located with land managers.

Prescribed fires, such as this one, are used by land managers to restore ponderosa pine forests to more resilient conditions. We are fortunate to be able to occasionally participate in such burns because we are co-located with land managers.

Vegetation monitoring in the area burned by the Soda Fire, 2015
Vegetation monitoring in the area burned by the Soda Fire, 2015
Vegetation monitoring in the area burned by the Soda Fire, 2015
Vegetation monitoring in the area burned by the Soda Fire, 2015

USGS scientists monitor BLM efforts to restore vegetation in the area burned byt he 2015 Soda Fire in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon sagebrush-steppe.

USGS scientists monitor BLM efforts to restore vegetation in the area burned byt he 2015 Soda Fire in southwest Idaho and southeast Oregon sagebrush-steppe.

Las Conchas Fire, NM Water Science Center
Las Conchas Fire, NM Water Science Center
Las Conchas Fire, NM Water Science Center
Las Conchas Fire, NM Water Science Center

This is a photograph of the Las Conchas Fire, USGS - New Mexico Water Science Center

This is a photograph of the Las Conchas Fire, USGS - New Mexico Water Science Center

Person writing on a data sheet in a burned area of the Funny River fire on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Assessing the severity of the Funny River fire on the Kenai Peninsula
Assessing the severity of the Funny River fire on the Kenai Peninsula
Assessing the severity of the Funny River fire on the Kenai Peninsula

Pre- and post-fire measurements of fire effects help ecologists, fire scientists, and managers determine how the severity of wildfires affects plants, animal habitat, and ecosystem services.

Pre- and post-fire measurements of fire effects help ecologists, fire scientists, and managers determine how the severity of wildfires affects plants, animal habitat, and ecosystem services.