Colorado Fire History Reconstruction from Tree Rings

Tree-ring fire history data from the Veblen site in Colorado, covering 533 calendar years from 489 to -44 years before present. The dataset was archived by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The associated study type is Fire and the data were last updated in 1994.

Use Cases

• Analyze fire return intervals and frequency from the fire history time-series.
• Correlate fire events with regional climate proxies using the calendar year BP chronology.
• Reconstruct historical fire severity and extent for the Colorado study location.
• Validate climate-fire models using the multi-century temporal coverage.

Strengths

• Covers a 533-year time period from 489 to -44 BP.
• Sourced from the authoritative NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, with a last update in 1994.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single site (BM9) in Colorado.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

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

Time Range

489 to -44 calendar years before present (BP).

Freshness

1994-01-01

Geography

Colorado, United States Of America.