This repository contains GeoTiff map of plant-water sentivity and scripts required to replicate figures from my manuscript

The maps folder contains the following maps:

1. Plant-water sensitivity representative of the period 2016 - 2020
2. Vapor pressure deficit trend in hPa/year from PRISM for the period 1980-2020
3. Wildland-urban interface for 1990 and 2010
4. Population density in 1990 and 2010

All maps are for the western US at 4 km resolution.

The repository consists of scripts in the analysis folder to reproduce figures from the main manuscript. Before running any script, please ensure all maps are downloaded.

1. Run pixel_level_plant_climate_fire.py to reproduce the relationship between plant-water sensitivity and wildfire vulnerability (Fig. 1)
2. Run plant_climate_vs_vpd_trend_absolute.py to reproduce the relationship between plant-water sensitivity and trend in vapor pressure deficit (Fig. 2)
3. Run pop+wui_simplified_landsat_3cats.py to reproduce the growth in WUI population in different plant-water sensitivity zones (Fig. 3)

Rest of the scripts are not needed to reproduce manuscript results. They were used for development of the model and preliminary investigation only.

1. Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/kkraoj/wildfire_from_lfmc.git
2. Change the directory addresses of dir_data and dir_codes in dirs.py
3. Run any script from the analysis folder to reproduce the figures you wish

All scripts and data are available with CC/BY/4.0 license. Please cite my paper if you use any thing from this repo.

Citation: K. Rao, A. P. Williams, N. S. Diffenbaugh, M. Yebra, A. G. Konings, Plant-water sensitivity regulates wildfire vulnerability. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 6, 332–339 (2022).

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