75th percentile fires in each US Region for each calendar month comparing 1984-1993 and 2010-2019
Median number of 75th percentile fires in each US region for each calendar month, comparing the decades 1984-1993 and 2010-2019. The 75th percentile of the local fire size distribution in each Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) is determined for the historic reference period 1984-1993. The median number of 75th percentile fires is determined using a 30 day rolling window. Color is used to indicate GACC according to the key at right. Data on simultaneous wildfire occurrence come from the Monitoring Trends and Burn Severity (MTBS) project. This visualization was made as part of NSF Growing Convergence Project 2019762.
