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Table 2 Combustion factors by burn severity derived from median values of Campbell et al. (2007). Live tree, standing dead wood, and dead woodcombustion factors are a weighted average based on pre-burn biomass distribution in the Biscuit Fire of 2002 (Table 4 of Campbell et al. 2007). Understory combustion factor is the average of “grasses” and weighted average value for “small hardwoods”; litter and duff combustion factor is the average of “litter” and “duff” (Campbell et al. 2007)

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

Combustion factors

 

Total live tree

Understory

Standing dead wood

Downed dead wood

Litter and duff

Soil

High

0.11

0.93

0.27

0.35

0.99

0.05

Moderate

0.05

0.81

0.24

0.24

0.76

0.01

Low

0.01

0.60

0.01

0.21

0.81

0.01

Very low

0.00

0.42

0.00

0.23

0.67

0.00