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Burrowing rodents are thought to play a key role in the enzootic maintenance as well as epizootic outbreaks of plague. In the United States, prairie dogs (<jats:italic>Cynomys<\/jats:italic>), rodents (<jats:italic>Muridae<\/jats:italic>), and ground squirrels (<jats:italic>Spermophilus<\/jats:italic>) are susceptible to infection and are parasitized by fleas that transmit plague. In particular, prairie dogs can experience outbreaks that rapidly spread, which can lead to extirpation of colonies. A number of ecological parameters, including climate, are associated with these epizootics. In this study, we asked whether soil parameters, primarily moisture and temperature, are associated with outbreaks of plague in black\u2010tailed prairie dogs and Gunnison's prairie dogs in the Western United States, and at what depth these associations were apparent. 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