Fig. 5: Land cover type for fires involving structure burning (2001 to 2020). | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Land cover type for fires involving structure burning (2001 to 2020).

From: Emissions from burned structures in wildfires as significant yet unaccounted sources of US air pollution

Fig. 5

A Fraction of land cover categories across structure fire events grouped by the number of impacted structures. Land cover classification is based on the MODIS Land Cover Type dataset68. The Forests category includes classes 1–5. Shrublands, Savannas, and Grasslands includes classes 6–10. Croplands & Cropland/Natural Vegetation Mosaics includes classes 12 and 14. Urban and Built-up Lands corresponds to class 13. Other MODIS land cover types not shown—such as Permanent Wetlands, Barren, Water Bodies, and Permanent Snow and Ice (classes 11, 15–17)—are excluded due to negligible representation in the fire footprints. B Zoomed-in view of the top 3% of the y-axis (97–100%) from (A), highlighting minor land cover categories. A year-by-year land-cover composition within structure-involved fires can be found in Fig. S5.

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