In the western United States, mammal communities are facing habitat loss and degradation from increases in megafire frequency and severity. As a result, carnivores will likely adjust their behaviors and space use in response to altered vegetation structure. The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), a common mesocarnivore in California, is expected to shift its occurrence in these heterogeneous post-fire landscapes, but few studies have explored which fire and vegetation characteristics drive gray fox distributions. To examine how gray foxes use post-fire vegetation, we used spatial occupancy models focused on the effect of burn severity and its landscape configuration, and localized vegetation characteristics on gray fox occupancy. We used a 2023 remote camera dataset (n = 210), differenced Normalized Burn Ratio, vegetation structure, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index to describe gray fox occurrence following the 2021 Dixie Fire (~1 million acres) in Lassen and Plumas national forests, California. Preliminary results suggest that gray foxes use sites that experienced high severity fire rather than those with high contemporary vegetation greenness. We hope that by examining the burned vegetation conditions that shape the space use of a common mesocarnivore, we can help provide a starting place for further examination of mesocarnivore distributions following megafires.