Accommodating Mixed-Severity Fire to Restore and Maintain Ecosystem Integrity with a Focus on the Sierra Nevada of California, USA

Fire Ecology

Table 4 Wilderness and adjacent inventoried roadless areas (IRA) in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA, compared to largest fire sizes.

Wilderness/IRA complex	Complex size (ha)	Largest fire within associated forest unit¹ (1984 to 2014)
Eldorado	75 255	40 005
Inyo	601 756	7 995
Lassen	99 821	6 383
Modoc	109 725	15 507
Plumas	35 987	26 371
Sequoia	266 316	51 284
Sierra	293 314	9 538
Stanislaus	143 319	71 614
Tahoe	69 519	8 394
Toiyabe	348 597	10 163
Lake Tahoe Basin	28 345	1 083

¹ Fire sizes are for national forest units with wilderness/IRA complexes. Many fires extend beyond national forest and wilderness/IRA boundaries (see Appendix 1).