Table 3 Fires affecting national forests and parks within the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA, from 1984 to 2014 based on the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity project (http://www.mtbs.gov, accessed 8 September 2015). SD = standard deviation.
Management unit | Unit area hectares | Cumulative burned area | Mean fire size hectares (SD) | Largest fire area (ha) (% of fire occurring within management unit) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Area (ha) (number of fires) | (%) | ||||
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park | 350 030 | 31 795 (34) | 9.1 | 1 559 (1488) | 3 806 (88.5) |
Lassen Volcanic National Park | 43 432 | 12 811 (9) | 29.5 | 1 940 (3379) | 6 383 (58.5) |
Yosemite National Park | 301 885 | 102 864 (49) | 34.1 | 4 268 (15 174) | 31 841 (30.6) |
Eldorado National Forest | 321 290. | 63 458 (9) | 19.7 | 7 882 (12 496) | 40 005 (99.6) |
Inyo National Forest | 834 535 | 47 767 (26) | 5.7 | 4 536 (11 391) | 7 995 (13.5) |
Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest | 80 595 | 1 138 (2) | 1.4 | 1 423 (285.5) | 1 083 (88.7) |
Lassen National Forest | 602 442 | 145 393 (46) | 24.1 | 7 607 (10 801) | 18 632 (75.0) |
Modoc National Forest | 818 852 | 85 022 (37) | 10.4 | 3 221 (6 348) | 15 507 (41.8) |
Plumas National Forest | 579 996 | 141 396 (37) | 24.4 | 5 111 (8 112) | 26 371 (99.0) |
Sequoia National Forest | 470 505 | 163 731 (61) | 34.8 | 3 801 (8 563) | 51 284 (86.5) |
Sierra National Forest | 574 583 | 48 785 (30) | 8.5 | 3 261 (4373) | 9 538 (100) |
Stanislaus National Forest | 441 366 | 171 391 (35) | 38.8 | 7 647 (17 908) | 71 614 (68.8) |
Tahoe National Forest | 476 706 | 54 294 (19) | 11.4 | 5 786 (9640) | 8 394 (100) |
Toiyabe National Forest | 731 467 | 63 715 (33) | 8.7 | 2 797 (3 692) | 10 163 (100) |