Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings in Oregon

251 to -42 calendar years before present of fire history data derived from tree-ring analysis at the Five Mile Creek site in Oregon. The dataset is archived by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information under its World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. It was last updated in the repository in 1992.

Use Cases

• Reconstructing regional fire frequency and return intervals using the fire history chronology from tree rings.
• Analyzing the relationship between climate periods and fire events over a 293-year span from 251 to -42 BP.
• Calibrating other paleoenvironmental proxies by correlating the fire event timeline with sediment or pollen records.
• Modeling historical fire seasonality and intensity based on fire scar evidence recorded in the tree-ring parameters.

Strengths

• Covers a specific 293-year time period from 251 to -42 calendar years before present.
• Data is curated and archived by the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.
• Focuses on a defined geographic location at the Five Mile Creek site in Oregon, USA.

Limitations

• Temporal coverage ends at -42 BP, providing no data for the most recent two millennia.
• The dataset is spatially limited to a single site (site 6), which may not represent broader regional patterns.
• Data was last updated in the system in 1992, indicating potential staleness in metadata or documentation.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Derived from tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) for fire history reconstruction.

Time Range

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

Freshness

1992-01-01

Geography

Five Mile Creek, Oregon, United States Of America.