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Specific challenges for data and models in post-fire hydrology are best addressed by subdividing global hydrological functioning into water domains, shown in the figure as the ecohydrological domain, ecosystem services domain, socio-hydrologic domain, and water security domain.Water supply is impacted by wildfire via water domain interactions, but much remains unclear about the magnitude and direction of these interactions (background image credit: NASA’s Earth Observatory, 2002)