Burning now
4
Uncontained incidents of 100+ acres in the region.
One map, everything on it
Where they are, and what is happening to them.
Both species, the fires that have burned through their range since 2017, what is burning right now, and the two units holding the densest Joshua tree forest left — drawn together, because the overlap is the story.
Every layer is a record of observation, not a survey. Absence of a dot means nobody logged a
tree there — not that none grows there. Fire perimeters are California only; the range crosses into
Nevada, Arizona and Utah, where this layer goes quiet.
Dome Fire · 2020
44k
Acres on Cima Dome, one of the densest Joshua tree forests anywhere.
York Fire · 2023
93k
Acres, crossing from Nevada into the preserve three years later.
Regrowth
None
Joshua trees have no adaptation to fire. Burned stands do not come back.
Zoom to Cima Dome, north of Kelso. The burn scar and the tree records stop at the same line — that is what a fire does to a species that cannot resprout.