Fire History Data

Records of past fire occurrence from tree rings, charcoal found in lake sediments, and other proxies. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations. Additional information on the International Multiproxy Database (IMPD) data set procedures are also available. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/impd/paleofire.html

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity irregular
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publisher DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce (Point of Contact)
resource-type Dataset
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • earth-science-climate-indicators-paleoclimate-indicators-land-records-fire-history
  • earth-science-paleoclimate-fire-history-charcoal-sediment
  • earth-science-paleoclimate-fire-history-establishment-dates
  • earth-science-paleoclimate-fire-history-fire-scar-dates
  • enso
  • geo
  • geographic-region-global
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • pacific-decadal-oscillation
  • pages-2k-network
  • pages-lotred-2k
  • paleo-start-date-17679-ad
  • paleo-start-date-19629-cal-yr-bp
  • paleo-stop-date-2008-ad
  • paleo-stop-date-58-cal-yr-bp
  • united-states
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
maintainer_email paleo@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T17:35:50.576804
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T17:35:50.576808
notes Records of past fire occurrence from tree rings, charcoal found in lake sediments, and other proxies. Parameter keywords describe what was measured in this data set. Additional summary information can be found in the abstracts of papers listed in the data set citations. Additional information on the International Multiproxy Database (IMPD) data set procedures are also available. For details please see: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/impd/paleofire.html
num_resources 8
num_tags 21
title Fire History Data