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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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“…this snowpack decline, northwestern US watersheds generally experience a later summer or fall fire season, and as such, fire season outcomes may be more strongly modulated by antecedent spring and summer conditions, and less strongly influenced by snowpack (Holden et al 2018, Halofsky et al 2020).”
Characterizing Indoor Surface VOC Contamination after the 2025 Los Angeles Fires
Stinson, B. W., Lei, E., & Gall, E. T. (2026) · Environmental Science & Technology Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.5c01015 · Cited by 3
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Exploring the potential role of built environments in wildlife conservation during wildfires
Hohwieler, K., Pizà‐Roca, C., Brunton, E. A., Ward, M., & Cristescu, R. H. (2025) · Conservation Science and Practice · doi:10.1111/csp2.70200 · Cited by 2
“Changing fire regimes are causing widespread ecosystem changes and becoming a conservation concern for many threatened species globally (Doherty et al., 2024; Halofsky et al., 2020; Pivello et al., 2021; Tomas et al., 2021).”
Cova, G. R., Prichard, S. J., Zald, H. S. J., Gaines, W. L., & Kane, V. R. (2025) · Forest Ecology and Management · doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123262 · Cited by 4
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FOCUS: Improving fire detection on videos by scenario adaptation
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“…more severe and recurrent drought episodes (Solomon et al. 2007; Cook et al. Page 2 of 18 Sagar et al. Annals of Forest Science (2025) 82:24 2018), irregular precipitation (Donat et al. 2013), fire hazards (Halofsky et al. 2020), and increased impacts of pests and diseases (Sturrock et al. 2011).”
Effects of Fire Intensity on Soil Microbial Ecology in a Grassland Ecosystem
Lebre, P., Fouché, J., Bosch, J., Pertierra, L. R., Varliero, G., Frisby, A., Barker, N. P., Greve, M., Tichapondwa, S., & Cowan, D. (2025) · Environmental Microbiology · doi:10.1111/1462-2920.70124 · Cited by 3
“This study assessed the impact of different fire intensities on the soil microbial communities of grasslands, which will be subject to increased fire intensity due to the effects of climate change (Halofsky et al. 2020).”
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Quantifying Western US tree carbon stocks and sequestration from fires
Jiang, P., Russell, M. B., Babcock, C., & Frelich, L. (2025) · Fire Ecology · doi:10.1186/s42408-025-00360-9 · Cited by 3
“This can be attributed to the warmer and less drought-prone twentieth century, which increased forest productivity making forests denser with greater carbon biomass (Littell et al. 2016; Halofsky et al. 2020).”
Minehart, K., D’Antonio, A., & Wilkins, E. J. (2025) · PLOS Climate · doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000537 · Cited by 3
“Predictive models also forecast more wet and dry extremes and elevated wildfire activity throughout the 21st century [7,8].”
Drivers of Wildfire Spatial Expansion: Modeling Insights from Semi-Arid Oak Forests of W Iran
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Chinese pangolins facilitate ecological restoration in burned forest sites by burrowing
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Changing fire regimes and nuanced impacts on a critically imperiled species
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PyroVision: A Deep Learning Based Model for Wildfire Detection in Satellite Imagery
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“The connection between rising temperatures, longer dry periods, increased wildfires and their widespread impact contributes to significant changes in wildfire risk [2].”
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“The evidence shows that fires in the far North are becoming wider, hotter, and more frequent (Halofsky et al., 2020; Mack et al., 2021).”
BackgroundAssessment and Analysis of Forest Fires in Bulgaria
Velichkova, R., Gieva, E., & Simova, I. (2024) · CIEES 2023 · doi:10.3390/engproc2024060002 · Cited by 3
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“Although the fire season in the dry forests of the Upper Columbia River Basin occurs between May and October, winter and spring precipitation influences soil moisture and fuel conditions (Halofsky et al., 2020; Wright & Agee, 2004).”
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“The changes in fire dynamics caused by climate change adversely affect the recovery of forest structure and composition, hampering the provision of forest ecosystem services (Halofsky et al., 2020).”
BackgroundAssessment of public and private land cover change in the United States from 1985–2018
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“Current wildfire regimes are shifting toward greater intensity and frequency (Halofsky et al 2020).”
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“The “gray phase” occurs 6–15 years after beetle outbreak, when dead foliage falls to the ground but snags remain standing (Halofsky et al., 2020).”
BackgroundPreDisM: Pre-Disaster Modelling With CNN Ensembles for At-Risk Communities
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“…warm and dry conditions cause severe and vast wildfires, and such fires could frequently occur as global warming extends fire seasons in the future (Halofsky et al., 2020); more extreme rainfalls are expected due to warming climate (Knutson et al., 2015) and the slow-downed tropical cyclones which…”
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Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands
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“Growing wildfire size, post-fire changes in fuel complexes, and hotter, drier climates also increase the likelihood of overlapping, uncharac-teristically large high severity burn scars from successive fires (Holden et al 2010; Coop et al 2016; Halofsky et al 2020).”
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Prevailing Climate Patterns for Concurrent High Temperature and Low Precipitation Days in Canada
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“…periods of low precipitation and high temperatures significantly increase the risk and severity of widespread droughts (Hu et al., 2023), wildfires (Halofsky et al., 2020; Richardson et al., 2022), low crop yields (Hamed et al., 2021; Lu et al., 2018), and weak streamflows (Gupta et al., 2023).”
IGNITE-NET: fire risk prediction using dynamic receptive fields and dynamic channel fusion attention
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“In recent decades, wildfire frequency, size, and intensity have increased across boreal forests, particularly in North America, driven by climate warming and land-use change (de Groot et al. 2013; Strahan et al. 2016 ; Halofsky et al. 2020 ).”
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“Additional environmental stresses such as drought, fire, disease and climate change have led some species to the brink of extinction (Costion et al ., 2015; Fensham et al ., 2020; Halofsky et al ., 2020) and are contributing to a growing need to preserve rain-forest species ex situ .”
Investigating the dynamic behaviour of merging fire fronts
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“…of large legacy trees for avian biodiversity we found is likely relevant to a range of forest management practices, and it underscores the importance of managing for forest resilience so that such legacies are maintained in the face of increasing fire extent and severity (Halofsky et al., 2020).”
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“In addition to the consequences for human health and social well-being, periods of sustained temperature stress have negative effects on fire regimes and the mortality of plants and trees in forest ecosystems [6,7].”
Magnifier: A Multigrained Neural Network-Based Architecture for Burned Area Delineation
Cambrin, D. R., Colomba, L., & Garza, P. (2025) · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing · doi:10.1109/jstars.2025.3565819 · Cited by 4
“Magnifierimprovesthequality oftheresultsof + 2.65% on average intersection over union while leading to a restrained increase in terms of the number of trainable parameters compared to the original model.”
InfluentialA literature review of climate change-related risk factors for cancer development
da Silva, V. E., Wang, X., Montelpare, W. J., & Kınay, P. (2025) · Environmental Research Health · doi:10.1088/2752-5309/adcfb9 · Cited by 1
“Historical data suggests that higher temperatures, stable or decreasing summer precipitation, and increased drought severity will likely increase the frequency and extent of fires (Halofsky et al 2020, Mansoor et al 2022).”
Research on forest fire information propagation model based on IoV
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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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