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Table 1 Historic mean annual number of wildfire ignitions (1990 to 2009) in the resource-objectives wildfire start zone (NH), designated fraction of wildfire ignitions to be managed for resource objectives (FRO), and expected annual number of wildfires managed for resource objectives (NRO) by month of fire start. NRO is the product of NH and FRO.

From: Quantifying the Threat of Unsuppressed Wildfires Reaching the Adjacent Wildland-Urban Interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA

 

NH (fires yr−1)

FRO (%)

NRO (fires yr−1)

May

0.2

0

0.0

Jun

0.7

10

0.1

Jul

2.4

25

0.6

Aug

4.3

45

1.9

Sep

1.9

60

1.1

Oct

0.8

80

0.6

Nov

0.0

80

0.0

Dec

0.0

80

0.0

Total

10.2

43

4.4