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Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA
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Background: Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, USA) have been immense in recent years, capturing the attention of resource managers, fire scientists, and the general public. This paper synthesizes understanding of the potential effects of changing climate and fire regimes on Pacific Northwest forests, including effects on disturbance and stress interactions, forest structure and composition, and post-fire ecological processes. We frame this information in a risk assessment context, and conclude with management implications and future research needs. Results: Large and severe fires in the Pacific Northwest are associated with warm and dry conditions, and such conditions will likely occur with increasing frequency in a warming climate. According to projections based on historical records, current trends, and simulation modeling, protracted warmer and drier conditions will drive lower fuel moisture and longer fire seasons in the future, likely increasing the frequency and extent of fires compared to the twentieth century. Interactions between fire and other disturbances, such as drought and insect outbreaks, are likely to be the primary drivers of ecosystem change in a warming climate. Reburns are also likely to occur more frequently with warming and drought, with potential effects on tree regeneration and species composition. Hotter, drier sites may be particularly at risk for regeneration failures. Conclusion: Resource managers will likely be unable to affect the total area burned by fire, as this trend is driven strongly by climate. However, fuel treatments, when implemented in a spatially strategic manner, can help to decrease fire intensity and severity and improve forest resilience to fire, insects, and drought. Where fuel treatments are less effective (wetter, high-elevation, and coastal forests), managers may consider implementing fuel breaks around high-value resources. When and where post-fire planting is an option, planting different genetic stock than has been used in the past may increase seedling survival. Planting seedlings on cooler, wetter microsites may also help to increase survival. In the driest topographic locations, managers may need to consider where they will try to forestall change and where they will allow conversions to vegetation other than what is currently dominant.
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Kumari, S., Mamgain, S., Roy, A., & Prince, H. C. (2025) · International journal of wildland fire · doi:10.1071/wf23163 · Cited by 7
Ehrke, C., Farguell, A., & Kochanski, A. (2024) · Atmosphere · doi:10.3390/atmos15121424 · Cited by 7
Divergent trajectories of regeneration in early‐successional forests after logging and wildfire
Bowd, E., McBurney, L., & Lindenmayer, D. B. (2024) · Ecological Applications · doi:10.1002/eap.3061 · Cited by 7
Post-fire temporal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities in a tropical savanna
Teixido, A. L., Souza, C. S., Barônio, G. J., Sigrist, M. R., Raizer, J., & Aoki, C. (2024) · Oecologia · doi:10.1007/s00442-024-05619-7 · Cited by 9
Smith, J. E., Billmire, M., French, N. H. F., & Domke, G. (2024) · Carbon Balance and Management · doi:10.1186/s13021-024-00274-0 · Cited by 7
Socially vulnerable US Pacific Northwest communities are more likely to experience wildfires
Reilley, C., Dunn, C. J., Crandall, M. S., & Kline, J. D. (2024) · Environmental Research Letters · doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad6cec · Cited by 8
“We focused our analysis on communities in Oregon and Washington, two western states facing increased wildfire activity in recent years [45].”
Brown, M., Jenkins, J., & Kolden, C. A. (2024) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120702 · Cited by 7
Trade‐offs among management objectives in mature Douglas‐fir forests of the Pacific Northwest
Williams, N., & Powers, M. (2024) · Ecosphere · doi:10.1002/ecs2.4787 · Cited by 7
Becker, K. M. L., & Lutz, J. (2023) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121190 · Cited by 7
Ferreira, L., Baptista, A. N., Constantino, M., Marques, S., Martins, I., & Borges, J. (2023) · Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · doi:10.3389/ffgc.2023.1177698 · Cited by 7
“With climate change, and based on current trends, large and severe fires as well as longer fire seasons are more likely to occur (Halofsky et al., 2020).”
BackgroundLu, J.-Z., Zhou, T.-J., Wu, C.-P., & Ou, Y. (2023) · Fire · doi:10.3390/fire6050176 · Cited by 7
Developing Psychological Resilience to the Impact of Drought
Abunyewah, M., Byrne, M. K., Keane, C. A., & Bressington, D. T. (2023) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph20043465 · Cited by 7
Two Centuries of Change in the Native Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Bertin, R., Searcy, K., Motzkin, G., Hickler, M., & Grima, P. P. (2022) · Rhodora · doi:10.3119/21-18 · Cited by 7
“…nitrogen enrichment (Bobbink et al. 2010; Cleland and Harpole 2010; Gilliam et al. 2016; Greller et al. 1990), changing fire regimes (Garren 1943; Halofsky et al. 2020; Lloret and Zedlar 2009), herbivory associated with elevated deer populations (Averill et al. 2017; Horsley et al. 2003), and…”
BackgroundCoughlan, M., Adams, M. D. O., Huber-Stearns, H., Kohler, G., & Rhodeland, A. (2021) · Society & Natural Resources · doi:10.1080/08941920.2021.2019358 · Cited by 7
“Over the last few years, changing climate and fire regimes in the PNW have increased the vulnerability of forest-based communities to environmental hazards (Halofsky, Peterson, and Harvey 2020).”
BackgroundAssessing the Role of Snow Cover for Post‐Wildfire Revegetation Across the Pacific Northwest
Wilson, A., Nolin, A. W., & Bladon, K. D. (2021) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · doi:10.1029/2021jg006465 · Cited by 6
“Forested, mountain landscapes in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the USA (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and western Montana) have been changing at an unprecedented rate due to dramatic shifts in the regional climate regime (Halofsky et al., 2020; Littell et al., 2010; Seidl et al., 2017; Spies et al., 2010).”
BackgroundKarna, Y. K., Penman, T., Aponte, C., Gutekunst, C., & Bennett, L. T. (2021) · International journal of wildland fire · doi:10.1071/wf20153 · Cited by 7
California and Oregon NICU Wildfire Disaster Preparedness Tools
Ma, A. L., Loughland, M. E. D., Lapcharoensap, W., Dukhovny, D., & Lee, H. C. (2021) · Children · doi:10.3390/children8060465 · Cited by 10
Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns: Implications for Stream Thermal Regimes
Kurylyk, B., Kelleher, C., Irvine, D. J., Tackley, H., Leach, J. A., Neilson, B., & Bense, V. (2026) · WIREs Water · doi:10.1002/wat2.70062 · Cited by 6
“…and research headlines, with many studies understandably focused on wildfire impacts on hydrology (Ebel et al. 2012; Shakesby and Doerr 2006), surface water biogeochemistry (Hohner et al. 2019; Paul et al. 2022; Richardson et al. 2024), and vegetation (Bowman et al. 2020; Halofsky et al. 2020).”
Legge, E. O. L., Koyama, A., Fernandez, C. W., Wood, K. E. A., Silva, N. J. T., Brudvig, L. A., & Yacht, A. L. V. (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123147 · Cited by 7
Prendergast, K. S., Campbell, J., & Bateman, P. W. (2025) · Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/brv.70082 · Cited by 6
Global firestorm: Igniting insights on environmental and socio-economic impacts for future research
Soontha, L., & Bhat, M. Y. (2025) · Environmental Development · doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101362 · Cited by 7
Gascoigne, S. J. L., Kajin, M., Tuljapurkar, S. D., Santos, G. S., Compagnoni, A., Steiner, U. K., Vinton, A. C., Jaggi, H., Sepil, I., & Salguero‐Gómez, R. (2025) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/ele.70066 · Cited by 16
“Furthermore, extreme weather events are expected to become more common, leading to increased autocorrelation (e.g., tropical cyclones: Knutson et al. 2010; fire frequency: Halofsky, Peterson, and Harvey 2020).”
Underutilized Feature Extraction Methods for Burn Severity Mapping: A Comprehensive Evaluation
Van, L. N., & Lee, G. (2024) · Remote Sensing · doi:10.3390/rs16224339 · Cited by 6
“The Carlton Complex fire (Figure 2), which ignited in July 2014 due to lightning strikes amidst severe drought conditions, became the largest and one of the most destructive wildfires in Washington State’s history [87].”
Lee, S.-C., Meyer, G., Foord, V., Spittlehouse, D., Burton, P. J., Jassal, R., & Black, T. A. (2024) · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110128 · Cited by 6
Chung, M. G., Guo, H., Nyelele, C., Egoh, B. N., Goulden, M. L., Keske, C. M. H., & Bales, R. C. (2024) · Ecohydrology · doi:10.1002/eco.2642 · Cited by 4
“…high-severity wildfires in forest lands severely exacerbate damage to the ecological processes of plant photosynthesis, evaporation and transpiration, with resulting negative effects on both water quantity and quality (Halofsky et al., 2020; Hessburg et al., 2021; Prichard et al., 2021).”
BackgroundBar, S., Acharya, P., Parida, B., Sannigrahi, S., Maiti, A., Barik, G., & Kumar, N. (2024) · Environmental science and pollution research international · doi:10.1007/s11356-024-32922-w · Cited by 6
“…fire, and crop residue burning) is a severe environmental concern, particularly in tropical and subtropical biomes (Moritz et al. 2012), where large fires have become a periodic occurrence as a result of global warming and shifting precipitation patterns (Halofsky et al. 2020; Hantson et al. 2020).”
Chafe, O. E., Broz, A., Silva, L., Farinacci, M. D., Anderson, R. O., & Levenson, E. (2024) · Frontiers in Climate · doi:10.3389/fclim.2024.1273632 · Cited by 8
Woolet, J., Stevens-Rumann, C., Coop, J., & Pejchar, L. (2023) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121368 · Cited by 6
Bhattacharjee, S., Mukherjee, T., Chatterjee, D., Dar, S. A., Dutta, R., Singh, H., Sharief, A., Kumar, V., Joshi, B. D., Maheswaran, G., et al. (2023) · Proceedings of the Zoological Society · doi:10.1007/s12595-023-00480-7 · Cited by 8
Increasing fire frequency may trigger eco‐hydrologic divergence
Lakmali, S., Benyon, R. G., Sheridan, G., & Lane, P. N. J. (2023) · Hydrological Processes · doi:10.1002/hyp.14858 · Cited by 7
“Further, short-interval fires also repeatedly burned forests in Mount Adams in southwestern Washington three times from 2008 to 2015 (Halofsky et al., 2020).”
BackgroundInfluentialWhere forest may not return in the western United States
Wickham, J., Neale, A., Riitters, K., Nash, M., Dewitz, J., Jin, S., van Fossen, M., & Rosenbaum, D. (2023) · Ecological Indicators · doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109756 · Cited by 6
Schmidt, A., Ellsworth, L. M., Tilt, J. H., & Gough, M. (2022) · Machine Learning with Applications · doi:10.1016/j.mlwa.2023.100454 · Cited by 6
Ruiz-Corzo, R., Aryal, D. R., Venegas-Sandoval, A., Jerez-Ramírez, D. O., Fernández-Zúñiga, K. S., Lopez-Cruz, S. D. C., López-Herández, J. C., Peña-Alvarez, B., & Velázquez-Sanabria, C. A. (2022) · Ecosistemas y Recursos Agropecuarios · doi:10.19136/era.a9n2.3253 · Cited by 6
“Además de que los incendios, vien- tos, huracanes, sequía prolongada son otros factores que pueden alterar la acumulación de combustibles forestales (Halofsky et al. 2020, Kelly et al. 2020).”
BackgroundEnhanced Photosynthesis and Transpiration in an Old Growth Forest Due To Wildfire Smoke
Rastogi, B., Schmidt, A., Berkelhammer, M., Noone, D., Meinzer, F., Kim, J. B., & Still, C. (2022) · Geophysical Research Letters · doi:10.1029/2022gl097959 · Cited by 6
“Climate change is expected to alter fire regimes (Halofsky et al., 2020; Parks et al., 2018), for for example, in the Western U.S., increases in fire frequency have been observed and linked to increased aridity (Abatzoglou & Williams, 2016; Holden et al., 2018; LeRoy West-erling, 2016).”
Real-Time Fire Detection From Video Surveillance Cameras: Where Are We Now?
Carletti, V., Greco, A., Saggese, A., & Vento, B. (2026) · IEEE Access · doi:10.1109/access.2026.3664195 · Cited by 6
“Moreover, the effects of climate change are amplifying this threat: the global rise in temperature [2] is increasingly associated with extended drought periods and severe weather conditions, which exacerbate the frequency and intensity of fires worldwide [3], [4].”
Leveraging additional VIIRS information to improve wildfire tracking in the western US
Coffield, S., McCabe, T. D., Schroeder, W., Chen, Y., Scholten, R. C., Orland, E., Liu, T., Wiggins, E. B., Randerson, J. T., Follette‐Cook, M. B., et al. (2025) · Remote Sensing of Environment · doi:10.1016/j.rse.2025.115156 · Cited by 5
Ebel, B. A., Hammond, J. C., Walvoord, M. A., Partridge, T. F., Rey, D. M., & Murphy, S. F. (2025) · Environmental Research Water · doi:10.1088/3033-4942/ae2a64 · Cited by 4
“Wildfire effects on snow accumulation and ablation processes are increasingly important to understand as wildfires advance into higher elevations (Halofsky et al 2020, Alizadeh et al 2021), where seasonal snow represents an important source of WUS water supply (Gleason et al 2019, Kampf et al 2022).”
Lutze, M. T., Trouvé, R., Baker, P., & Nitschke, C. (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123182 · Cited by 5
Niccoli, F., Marfella, L., Kabala, J. P., Rowe, J., Marzaioli, R., Rutigliano, F. A., Glanville, H. C., & Battipaglia, G. (2025) · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110804 · Cited by 6
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“Climate-driven changes in PAWSC-ET relationships will be accelerated by disturbance, which can alter above-and below-ground vegetation structure and species (e.g., Halofsky et al. 2020; Anderegg et al. 2013).”
Sali, A., Nomqupu, S., Nyamugama, A., & Ndou, N. N. (2025) · Earth Science Informatics · doi:10.1007/s12145-025-01991-x · Cited by 5
“Their frequency and severity have been noted in several countries around the world (Halofsky et al. 2020 ), affecting ecosystem Earth Science Informatics (2025) 18:488 (Lentile et al. 2006).”
Assessing wildfire potential in a coastal forest watershed, British Columbia, Canada
Perrakis, D. D. B., Brown, K. J., Morrison, K., Horrelt, D. R., & Taylor, S. W. (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122796 · Cited by 4
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Moisture loss rate drives the species-specific sensitivity of shoot flammability to water status.
Mahmud, A., Aktepe, N., & Schwilk, D. (2025) · American-Eurasian journal of botany · doi:10.1002/ajb2.70052 · Cited by 5
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“…and lowest in forests; (3) across all VTs, resistance and resilience are highest for GPP and ET and lowest for LAI, a key factor determining GPP (Saigusa et al., 2005); and (4) precipitation and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) are more important to the resilience in grassland than in other VTs.”
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“…the land in the contiguous Western states is federally owned and managed (Edwards and Sutherland 2022), and in the face of ever-increasing severity and scale of wild fi res, suppression costs, largely funded by the government, escalated to $1.76 billion in 2020 (Halofsky, Peterson, and Harvey 2020).”
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Weather pattern and wildfire interplay in Tsavo Conservation Area, Kenya
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“Such drought contribute immensely to wildfire severity (Halofsky et al. 2020).”
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Influence of wildfire severity on plant and bird species richness, diversity and composition
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Metadata
- Authors
- Halofsky, J. E., Peterson, D. L., & Harvey, B. J.
- Affiliations
- US Forest Service (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Halofsky, Jessica E.
- Venue
- Fire Ecology
- Published
- 2020-01-27
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1933-9747 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3000989483
- Cited by
- 640
- References
- 235
- Citations by year
- 2026: 74 · 2025: 142 · 2024: 141 · 2023: 121 · 2022: 91 · 2021: 62 · 2020: 8
- FWCI
- 26.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Fire Ecology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (G17AS00114)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Forestry › Forest Management and Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Keywords
- climate change, forest fires, fire regimes, Pacific Northwest forests, insect outbreaks, fuel moisture content, fire season length, fire severity, fuel treatment, firebreaks, post-fire regeneration, seedling survival, forest resilience, forest composition, vegetation change, fire risk assessment
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