Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetative regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland
August 11, 2025
Five years after the deadly and destructive 9 January 2018 Montecito debris flows (Santa Barbara County, California, USA), an atmospheric river storm on 9 January 2023 triggered widespread landsliding that affected many of the same drainages in the Santa Ynez Mountains. Using high-resolution aerial imagery, we identified >10,000 landslides over an ∼160 km2 area. Most of the landslides were shallow (
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Title | Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetative regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland |
| DOI | 10.1130/GES02856.1 |
| Authors | Matthew Thomas, Donald N. Lindsay, Jason Kean, Andrew Graber, Rebecca K. Rossi, Jaime Kostelnik, Francis Rengers, Jonathan Y. Schwartz, Brian J. Swanson, Nina S. Oakley, Paul W. Richardson, Alexander E. Morelan, Andrew C. Ritchie, Jonathan Warrick, Lindsey L. Rotche, Brian D. Penserini, Stephen Slaughter |
| Publication Type | Article |
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Series Title | Geosphere |
| Index ID | 70270177 |
| Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
| USGS Organization | Geologic Hazards Science Center - Landslides / Earthquake Geology |
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