Rangelands, which support grasses, grass-like plants, forbs, or shrubs, occur predominantly in arid and semiarid regions and cover nearly one-third of the US land area (Havstad et al., 2009). These lands support significant ecosystem services including livestock forage, wildlife habitat, and cultural heritage (Havstad et al., 2009;Jones et al., 2018;Reeves & Mitchell, 2011). Fire is a significant component of many rangeland ecosystems and is essential for the sustainability and productivity of these rangelands (Mitchell, 2000;Twidwell et al., 2021). Large high severity rangeland wildfires, however, can have enormous negative impacts on human safety and infrastructure (Calkin et al., 2014), as well as short-to long-term effects on ecosystem structure, function, and services especially in nonherbaceous-dominated rangeland ecosystems (