2003 Southern California Fire Assessments: Vegetation Type (Dominant) Tables
CALVEG vegetation types (all burned areas).Disclaimer
FRAP/RSL make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. In particular, data relating to recently burned areas reflect generalized perimeters and represent coarse, preliminary assessments of the fire perimeters, and fire sizes, and may change or not correspond to other officially reported acreage. Areas close to, or inside of the perimeters represented here may or may not have actually burned. The user will not seek to hold either the Federal or State Government, nor the US Forest Service or CDF liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps.October 2003 Southern California Fires
| Description | Cover Type | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | AGR | 11,162 |
| Alluvial Fan Sage Scrub | SHB | 8,638 |
| Annual Grass/Forbs | HEB | 51,056 |
| Baccharis (riparian) | SHB | 55 |
| Barren/Rock | BAR | 6,161 |
| Basin Sagebrush | SHB | 344 |
| Bigcone Douglas-Fir | CON | 302 |
| Bigcone Douglas-Fir | MIX | 7,255 |
| Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany | SHB | 534 |
| Black Walnut | HDW | 2,615 |
| Blue Oak | HDW | 54 |
| Buckwheat (White Sage) | SHB | 8,434 |
| California Bay | HDW | 56 |
| California Black Oak | HDW | 4,541 |
| California Sagebrush | SHB | 149,911 |
| California Sycamore | HDW | 390 |
| Canyon Live Oak | HDW | 13,070 |
| Chamise | SHB | 40,624 |
| Coast Live Oak | HDW | 36,776 |
| Coastal Cactus | SHB | 6 |
| Coulter Pine | CON | 895 |
| Coulter Pine | MIX | 11,288 |
| Coyote Brush | SHB | 1,832 |
| Curlleaf Mountain Mahogany | SHB | 22 |
| Cuyamaca Cypress | CON | 91 |
| Desert Buckwheat | SHB | 55 |
| Eastside Pine | CON | 63 |
| Eastside Pine | MIX | 74 |
| Encelia Scrub | SHB | 1,138 |
| Engelmann Oak | HDW | 7,817 |
| Eucalyptus | HDW | 882 |
| Foothill Mixed Chaparral | SHB | 17,577 |
| Fremont Cottonwood | HDW | 119 |
| Giant Reed/Pampas Grass | HEB | 211 |
| Interior Live Oak | HDW | 347 |
| Jeffrey Pine | CON | 1,792 |
| Jeffrey Pine | MIX | 5,181 | Knobcone Pine | CON | 698 |
| Knobcone Pine | MIX | 45 |
| Manzanita Chaparral | SHB | 1,560 |
| Mixed Conifer - Fir | CON | 1,002 |
| Mixed Conifer - Fir | MIX | 2,733 |
| Mixed Conifer - Pine | CON | 1,332 |
| Mixed Conifer - Pine | MIX | 7,974 |
| Mixed Desert Shrub | SHB | 37 |
| Mixed Hardwoods | HDW | 3,357 |
| Mixed Riparian Hardwoods | HDW | 3,416 |
| Montane Mixed Chaparral | SHB | 4,126 |
| Non-native Hardwoods | HDW | 87 |
| Non-native/Ornamental CON/HDW | MIX | 16 |
| Non-native/Ornamental Grass | HEB | 380 |
| Northern Mixed Chaparral | SHB | 216,035 |
| Perennial Grass | HEB | 3,568 |
| Ponderosa Pine | CON | 13 |
| Ponderosa Pine | MIX | 852 |
| Rabbitbrush | SHB | 295 |
| Red Shanks Chaparral | SHB | 10 |
| Scalebroom | SHB | 14 |
| Scrub Oak | SHB | 19,371 |
| Semi Desert Chaparral | SHB | 4,039 |
| Singleleaf Pinyon Pine | CON | 130 |
| Singleleaf Pinyon Pine | MIX | 19 |
| Soft Scrub-Chaparral | SHB | 2,565 |
| Southern Mixed Chaparral | SHB | 18,232 |
| Subalpine Conifers | CON | 49 |
| Sumac Shrub | SHB | 4,102 |
| Tecate Cypress | CON | 4,986 |
| Tule - Cattail - Sedge | HEB | 744 |
| Urban/Developed | URB | 16,698 |
| Valley Oak | HDW | 1,151 |
| Water | WAT | 3,667 |
| Wet Meadows (Grass/Sedge/Rush) | HEB | 577 |
| White Alder | HDW | 339 |
| White Fir | CON | 39 |
| White Fir | MIX | 20 |
| Willow | HDW | 631 |
| Not Yet Mapped | NYM | 5,518 |
| Total Acres | All Cover Types | * 721,791 |
| Description | Cover Type | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Total Acres All Fires | All Cover Types | * 721,791 |
* Not all areas within fire perimeters have CALVEG labels, hence this total differs slightly from other tabulations of burned acres.
For more information, please contact:
Dave Sapsis
Wildland Fire Scientist
CDF Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP)
PO Box 944246
Sacramento, CA 94244-2460
916.445.5369
dave.sapsis@fire.ca.gov