Extended Data Table 5.
The “events” column gives the total number of events in each record and “na” represents not available data; in the “resolution” column, “C” indicates a continuous dataset, C* indicates a continuous dataset with some missing values, whereas “D” indicates a discrete dataset (i.e., a list of discrete event years) and “categories” indicates that the data are classified by their degree of extreme; and in the “proxy” column, “Ins” indicates an instrumental dataset, whereas “Doc” indicates a documentary dataset (i.e., a historical record from documentary data). †36 is the total number of events in all included wildfire studies, which were combined into a single list of events for the analysis. Data from refs. 28,36,40,45,51–62,92–94.