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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1993
Nearly every square mile of Los Angeles County, California (LA County), has burned at least once since the beginning of organized fire protection in the State. In fact, many of the brush-covered canyons of LA County have burned a half dozen or more times in the past 70 years. The areas that have burned at least once before (under similar conditions) are referred to as 'historic wildfire corridors.' Historic wildfire corridors are closely related to Santa Ana wind corridors-geographic locations where Santa Ana winds surface year after year.
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Link to the full Fire Management Notes issue (1.5 MB; pdf)
Citation: Meehan, J. 1993. Historic wildfire corridors. Fire Management Notes, v. 53-54, no. 1, p. 14-17.
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Keywords:
- backfires
- Ceanothus
- chaparral
- fire case histories
- fire danger rating
- fire frequency
- fire protection
- fire suppression
- Foehn winds
- forest fragmentation
- fuel loading
- rate of spread
- southern California
- wildfires
- wind
Tall Timbers Record Number: 8858 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: A13.32:53-54/1 • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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