Fire Ecology

Table 4 Expected annual area burned (ha yr⁻¹) for all simulated unsuppressed wildfires originating in the RO start zone (4) and with application of RO rules (A_RO) by month of fire start.

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

	All fires		RO fires
	A (ha yr⁻¹)	Percent of total	A_RO (ha yr⁻¹)	Percent of total
May	593	4	0	0
Jun	2 062	14	206	4
Jul	4 738	33	1 185	24
Aug	5 450	38	2 493	51
Sep	1 105	8	663	14
Oct	392	3	313	6
Nov	0	0	0	0
Dec	0	0	0	0
Total	14 431	100	4 861	100

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