Fire Ecology

Table 1 Pre-burn carbon in each carbon pool separated by burn severity. Note that the majority of pre-burn carbon was stored in live trees

From: Estimating the economic value of carbon losses from wildfires using publicly available data sources: Eagle Creek Fire, Oregon 2017

Pre-burn carbon (Mg)
	Total live tree	Understory	Standing dead wood	Downed dead wood	Litter and duff	Soil	Total
High	1,420,930	18,906	90,305	166,411	236,498	274,363	2,207,413
Moderate	938,630	12,084	59,652	107,156	152,304	549,582	1,819,409
Low	1,143,969	15,246	69,716	132,525	189,041	491,169	2,041,666
Very low	640,541	8913	37,755	76,270	110,770	465,106	1,339,354
Total	4,144,069	55,149	257,429	482,362	688,614	1,780,220	7,407,841

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