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Table 2 Summary statistics of fire-scar history data from the south-central US prairie–forest border region for the past three to four centuries. Scarred (mean %) = average percentages of trees scarred during fire events, WMI = Weibull Median Interval (yr), MFI = Mean Fire Interval (yr), n/a = data not available. Site codes are listed in Table 1

From: Multi-scale synthesis of historical fire regimes along the south-central US prairie–forest border

All years

 

Scars

Fire intervals

MFI

Range

WMI

Scarred

Season %

Site

Years

(n)

(n)

(yr)

(yr)

(yr)

(mean %)

Dormant

Growing

Undetermined

BST

1653–2011

98

45

5.93

1–36

3.96

7

58

21

20

CCH

1636–2009

91

34

7.94

1–66

4.5

12

97

2

1

DPF

1703–2016

115

49

5.53

1–23

4.56

13

89

3

9

WCH

1712–2005

122

59

7.82

1–19

3.77

6

78

2

20

HAG

1707–2015

92

66

3.42

1–14

2.87

6

71

4

25

HOL

1720–2009

105

34

7.09

1–27

6.14

10

88

0

12

KEY

1770–2002

138

76

2.86

1–15

2.35

10

68

20

12

TLY

1646–2005

205

101

3.4

1–30

2.63

5

90

4

6

OKM

1742–2008

172

95

2.59

1–24

1.98

3

60

3

36

PRT

1691–2005

83

29

8.07

2–50

6.56

11

93

0

7

RGF

1746–2008

102

34

4.73

1–26

5.53

12

80

6

14

TPP

1729–2005

242

111

2.03

1–16

1.59

6

69

20

11

TSH

1730–2016

112

57

4.65

1–24

4.68

11

87

3

11

Pre European-American settlement

BST

1653–1829

30

45

10.9

2–27

8.41

11

58

16

26

CCH

1637–1899

35

34

6.45

1–53

4.25

12

97

1

1

DPF

1704–1899

34

49

4.47

1–12

3.95

9

73

5

22

WCH

1712–1899

52

59

4.4

1–19

3.56

8

76

2

22

HAG

1707–1842

20

66

4.42

1–14

3.82

13

42

6

52

HOL

1720–1899

33

34

6.91

1–25

5.19

15

87

0

13

KEY

1772–1907

51

76

4.14

1–15

3.33

15

71

15

15

TLY

1650–1889

29

101

2.95

1–17

2.51

13

91

3

6

OKM

1750–1899

62

95

4.3

1–24

3.23

3

70

5

25

PRT

1690–1820

28

29

6.67

2–14

6.37

16

88

0

12

RGF

1746–1899

38

34

4.96

1–17

4.16

13

80

5

15

TPP

1770–1871

54

111

3.5

1–16

3.65

11

50

8

42

TSH

1736–1842

35

57

3.35

1–11

2.95

16

82

3

15

Post European-American settlement

BST

1830–1940

75

32

3.38

1–11

2.8

5

57

25

20

CCH

1901–2010

20

4

19.25

2–66

8.71

11

95

5

0

DPF

1900–2016

81

14

7.5

2–23

6.04

9

89

0

11

WCH

1901–2005

35

18

5.22

1–19

4.04

4

83

3

14

HAG

1842–1946

49

35

2.8

1–12

2.31

4

76

2

22

HOL

1901–2010

48

9

10.67

1–27

8.85

11

88

0

13

KEY

1908–2001

97

46

2

1–6

1.86

8

67

23

10

TLY

1890–1925

24

16

2.12

1–4

2.02

19

88

13

0

OKM

1900–1988

132

52

1.67

1–5

1.54

3

58

2

39

PRT

1820–1924

33

10

9.8

2–50

6.78

9

100

0

0

RGF

1901–2009

23

6

16.67

7–26

16.33

9

83

9

9

TPP

1871–1914

23

19

2.16

1–5

2.18

4

65

4

30

TSH

1842–1946

63

19

4.89

1–23

3.75

4

87

3

10

Recent use

BST

1941–2011

4

1

n/a

n/a

n/a

4

75

25

0

CCH

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

DPF

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

WCH

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

HAG

1946–2015

17

10

3.3

1–7

2.95

3

82

6

12

HOL

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

KEY

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

TLY

1925–1992

7

4

16.75

8–30

16.14

58

86

0

14

OKM

1989–2005

25

8

1.75

1–2

1.79

4

68

0

32

PRT

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

RGF

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

TPP

1915–1989

194

59

1.25

1–5

1.17

6

72

23

5

TSH

1946–2015

17

9

7.44

1–24

4.88

7

100

0

0

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