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Table 1 Descriptions of fire danger assignment.

From: Modeling Climate-Fire Connections within the Great Basin and Upper Colorado River Basin, Western United States

Fire danger class

Threshold

Threshold description

Very Low

<Minimum training presence

Predicted value was less than any training fire’s predicted value.

Low

Minimum training presence

Predicted value was at least the minimum value predicted for a training fire.

Moderate

Equal

A value which balances commission error (false negative) with omission error (false positive) for the training fires.

High

5th percentile training

Predicted value was in the 5th percentile of training fire predicted values.