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. 2017 Feb 27;114(11):2946–2951. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617394114

Table S2.

Fire season start (first quartile, Julian day), median discovery day (Julian day) and fire season length (IQR, in days) by ecoregion and averaged across the entire coterminous United States

Ecoregion Fire season start (Julian day) Human advancement (d) Median discovery day (Julian day) Human advancement (d) Fire season length (IQR, days) Human expansion (d)
Human Lightning Human Lightning Human Lightning
Coterminous United States 81 182 101 140 206 66 154 46 108
Eastern Temperate Forests 69 149 80 111 181 70 167 66 101
Great Plains 84 181 97 163 207 44 148 47 101
North American Deserts 129 187 58 178 207 29 92 40 52
Temperate Sierras 126 180 54 166 201 35 85 39 46
Tropical Wet Forests 64 153 89 107 175 68 98 52 46
Mediterranean California 161 201 40 198 226 28 85 45 40
Northwestern Forested Mountains 175 196 21 212 215 3 75 36 39
Marine West Coast Forest 184 194 10 218 217 NA 67 52 15
Southern Semiarid Highlands 124 173 49 151 192 41 55 41 14
Northern Forests 105 148 43 120 196 76 51 79 NA

Note that the national-scale tripling of fire season length by human ignitions is driven by earlier (spring) fires in eastern ecoregions coupled with later (fall) fires in western ecoregions.