2016 Southwestern U.S. wildfire report now available

Wildfires burned nearly 600,000 acres last year in a three-state region of the Southwest U.S., more than double the number of acres burned in each of the previous two years, according to a new report published this week detailing the 2016 fire season. The report is the fourth in a series of annual overviews made available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute intended to serve as a summary for past years and allow for a comparison with previous fires. Specifically, the report describes effects from the 12 largest fires — each larger than 8,000 acres — in Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas...more

The report is embedded below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Yd5M8kgeNtSjFTSTl2UC1Ud1k/view?usp=sharing