Fire History Reconstruction from Upper Pine Creek Tree Rings

South Dakota fire history data spans 495 calendar years, from 450 to -45 years before present. The dataset includes parameters related to fire events and tree-ring analysis. It was archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and published in 1995.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire_history parameter frequency across the 495-year time series to reconstruct regional fire cycles.
• Correlate tree-ring parameters with fire events to assess forest resilience and recovery patterns.
• Model climate-fire relationships using the dated fire events and associated paleoenvironmental proxies.

Strengths

• Time series covers a specific 495-year period (450 to -45 BP).
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1995.
• Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single site in South Dakota.

Provenance

Source

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology.

Collection Method

Archived paleoclimatology study derived from tree-ring analysis.

Time Range

450 to -45 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1995-01-01

Geography

Upper Pine Creek, South Dakota, United States of America.