Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015

Agriculture & Biology

• wildfires 100%
• climate 61%
• fire severity 44%
• vapor pressure deficit 42%
• woodlands 21%
• forest ecosystems 15%
• burn severity 12%
• fire season 11%
• temperature 11%
• ecosystems 10%
• fire regime 10%
• threshold models 9%
• Southwestern United States 9%
• dry forests 8%
• dry environmental conditions 7%
• invasive species 7%
• land use 6%
• climate change 5%
• history 5%
• water 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• wildfire 78%
• climate 41%
• vapor pressure 23%
• woodland ecosystem 14%
• forest ecosystem 8%
• temperature 6%
• dry forest 5%
• aridity 5%
• invasive species 4%
• regional climate 4%
• woodland 4%
• vulnerability 3%
• warming 3%
• restoration 3%
• forecast 3%
• disturbance 3%
• land use 3%
• climate change 2%
• history 2%
• water 1%