Table 3 Fuel loading data for the Tripod Fire Complex based on seven different vegetation maps. Fuels are aggregated into ten categories: total fuels, canopy fuels, total surface fuels, shrub, grass, total woody, sound woody, rotten woody, litter, and duff.

Number of pixels

765

765

738

758

787 080

787 080

1 539 935

Hectares

70 483

70 483

71 100

71 350

70 837

70 837

64 994

Fuel loading

Total (Mg)

2 718 590

4 931 377

6 315 591

8 792 675

7 875 389

3 017 456

8 367 184

Total (Mg ha⁻¹)

38.6

69.9

88.8

123.3

111.2

42.6

128.7

Canopy (Mg)

1 367 157

2 496 356

2 224 207

505 622

2 565 159

Canopy (Mg ha⁻¹)

19.3

35

31.4

7.2

39.5

Total surface (Mg)

2 718 590

4 931 377

4 948 433

6 296 319

5 651 181

2 511 835

5 802 024

Total surface (Mg ha⁻¹)

38.6

69.9

69.5

88.3

79.8

35.4

89.2

Shrub (Mg ha⁻¹)

1.1

1.1

0.2

0.9

0.9

0.7

1.6

Grass (Mg ha⁻¹)

1.1

1.1

0.7

0.9

0.9

0.7

0.2

Total woody (Mg ha⁻¹)

36.1

33.6

32.5

37.7

34.5

15.7

48.6

Sound woody (Mg ha⁻¹)

36.1

33.6

25.6

22.6

20.8

9.9

36.3

Rotten woody (Mg ha⁻¹)

6.9

14.8

13.7

5.8

12.1

Litter (Mg ha⁻¹)

3.8

4.0

3.8

2.9

3.8

Duff (Mg ha⁻¹)

34.1

31.4

43.3

38.6

15.5

34.7