Simultaneous Occurrence of 75th Percentile Fires Correlation between the Northwest and other US Regions
Correlation between the number of large fires (i.e., greater than the historic 75th percentile of size in that region) occurring per month in the Northwest Geographic Area Coordination Center ( NW GACC) and in other GACCs. Both maps are divided into regions, with each region representing one GACC. The NW GACC, is indicated in black, while all other GACCs are indicated in a color that represents the Kendall correlation between number of simultaneous fires in GACCs. Red shades indicate a positive correlation and blue indicate negative correlation. Statistical significance is denoted with asterisks, (*) corresponds to p < 0.05, (**) corresponds to p < 0.01 and (***) correspond to p < 0.001. Note: only positive correlations were statistically significant in this analysis. 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.
