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  3. Postfire erosion estimates for large California wildfires that occurred between 1984 and 2021
  4. Geographic data defining watersheds less than 45 square kilometers burned in all California wildfires greater than 100 square kilometers, 1984—2021

Geographic data defining watersheds less than 45 square kilometers burned in all California wildfires greater than 100 square kilometers, 1984—2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1984
End Date
2021

Citation

Dow, H.W., Kostelnik, J., Kean, J.W., and Lindsay, D.N., 2024, Postfire erosion estimates for large California wildfires that occurred between 1984 and 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CG3DRR.

Summary

This table contains geographic information defining watersheds that were burned in large wildfires (greater than 100 square kilometers) that occurred in California or California-draining regions (i.e., upper Klamath watershed) between the years 1984 and 2021. Each wildfire was broken into tens to thousands of small watersheds, and each row of this table contains geographic information defining a single watershed.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
Originator :
Helen W Dow, Jaime Kostelnik, Jason W Kean, Donald N. Lindsay
Metadata Contact :
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards

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BurnedWatersheds_LargeFires1984to2021_WEPPbasinInput_metadata_0408.xml
“watershed metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		22.35 KB application/fgdc+xml
BurnedWatersheds_LargeFires1984to2021_WEPPbasinInput.csv
“watershed data” 		4.85 MB text/csv

Purpose

We used these data to run the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model using the Python module wepppy on all watersheds burned in all large wildfires from 1984 to 2021. From these data we created a statewide annual postfire sediment budget that is presented in the associated publication. These data can be used in combination with wepppy wrapper scripts that are available online (https://github.com/rogerlew/wepppy).

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