Dixie Butte Fire History from Tree-Ring Data

Tree-ring data from Oregon provides a 290-year record of fire history from 248 to -42 calendar years before present. This fire history dataset is archived by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information under the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The data was last updated in the repository in 1992.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire frequency and return intervals using the fire history time-series.
• Correlate fire events with climatic proxies using the calendar years before present (BP) timeline.
• Reconstruct historical fire regimes for the Dixie Butte region using tree-ring parameters.

Strengths

• Covers a 290-year temporal range (248 to -42 BP).
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
• Focuses on a specific geographic location (Oregon, USA).

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last repository update in 1992.
• Specific sample size (row count) and measurement parameters are unknown.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single site (Dixie Butte site 3).

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Derived from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology).

Time Range

248 to -42 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1992-01-01

Geography

Dixie Butte, Oregon, United States Of America.