Table 3.
Distribution of high fire risk days (average number of days per month, in %) over the months, and the number of years (%) that high fire risk happens for two drainage conditions using weather data from 1980–2015
| Month | Drainage conditions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural | Controlled canal | |||
| High fire level days (%) | Number of years (%) | High fire level days (%) | Number of years (%) | |
| June | – | – | 3 | 3 |
| July | – | – | 41 | 25 |
| August | 15 | 8 | 66 | 64 |
| September | 40 | 25 | 73 | 89 |
| October | 64 | 31 | 71 | 83 |
| November | 56 | 22 | 70 | 36 |
| December | 94a | 3 | 55 | 6 |
aDuring El Nino 2015