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Table 2 Area burned by fire size and forest type.

From: Trends in Wildfire Severity: 1984 to 2010 in the Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, and Southern Cascades, California, USA

Fire size (ha)

Forest type

Unchanged + low (ha)

Moderate (ha)

High(ha)

Total*(ha)

Unchanged + low (%)

Moderate (%)

High (%)

<400

yellow pine-mixed conifer

4 754

2 024

1 483

8 261

57.5

24.5

18.0

 

red fir

1 870

546

201

2 617

71.5

20.8

7.7

>400

yellow pine-mixed conifer

95 309

80 291

88 615

264 255

36.1

30.4

33.5

 

red fir

25 798

9 856

7 403

43 060

59.9

22.9

17.2

Total

 

127732

92 717

97 702

318 192

40.1

29.1

30.7

  1. * Includes area that could not be mapped (degree of severity was not assessed).