Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings in Washington State

495 calendar years of fire history data derived from tree ring analysis at the Nile Creek Aspect Polygon 9 site in Washington, USA. The dataset was archived by NOAA's World Data Service for Paleoclimatology and last updated in 1996. It provides parameters for reconstructing past fire events and their climatic context.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals from the tree-ring fire scar chronology.
• Correlate fire history parameters with known climatic proxy records for the region.
• Reconstruct historical fire seasons and intensities using dated fire events.
• Model vegetation succession and landscape changes following fire events documented in the record.

Strengths

• Covers a 495-year period (from 495 to -46 BP), providing a multi-century perspective.
• Data is curated and archived by NOAA's authoritative World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update date of 1996.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single study polygon in Washington State.
• Sample size and specific row/column counts are unknown, limiting reproducibility assessments.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history reconstruction.

Time Range

495 to -46 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1996-01-01

Geography

Nile Creek Aspect Polygon 9, Washington, United States Of America.