Table 3. Daily burned area (ha) across 158 distinct wildfire events in southern California from 2001 to 2009.
The 158 district wildfire events include wildfire events that were recorded by the MODIS MCD64A1 (Giglio et al. 2009) and Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity datasets (Eidenshink et al. 2007) and exceeded 1 km2. Daily burned area was estimated using the Fire Spread Reconstruction algorithm (Loboda and Csiszar 2007). nSA, the number of daily burned areas in the subset on which SA events (by any definition) occurred
| Subset | nSA | n | Mean (ha) | STD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 100 | 528 | 2081 | 5095 |
| Fire event duration | ||||
| Single-day events | 16 | 67 | 948 | 813 |
| Multi-day events | ||||
| All multi-day | 84 | 461 | 2250 | 5435 |
| First day | 27 | 89 | 2934 | 4456 |
| Middle day | 41 | 283 | 2528 | 6363 |
| Last day | 16 | 89 | 677 | 1165 |
| Burn area size | ||||
| <500 ha | 25 | 240 | 140 | 150 |
| ≥500 ha | 75 | 288 | 3706 | 6472 |
| Santa Ana eventsA | ||||
| SA1 | – | 100 | 4874 | 9693 |
| SA2 | – | 25 | 6485 | 11131 |
| SA3 | – | 70 | 6388 | 11180 |
| Any | – | 100 | 4874 | 9693 |
| None | – | 428 | 1433 | 2809 |
A
See Table 1 for Santa Ana event definitions.