Fig. 1

Sagebrush-dominated area that burned across the sagebrush biome from 1984 to 2020. LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings (BpS; US Geological Survey 2014) were used to identify sagebrush-dominated areas, and wildfire perimeters (Welty and Jeffries 2021) were used to determine the area burned. Red areas depict where fires burned in sagebrush-dominated communities, which are shown in light blue. Dark gray represents the area burned either outside of the sagebrush biome or within the sagebrush biome that is not a sagebrush-dominated BpS, such as forests, woodlands, and other shrublands. Figure from Crist et al. 2023