Fire history data for eastern Washington, USA

Fire scars provide a deep temporal record of historical fires, most of which pre-date Euro-American conquest of the West and subsequent land-use and management changes that obscure the dynamics of natural fire regimes. This eastern Washington fire-history data publication contains a unique spatially explicit fire-scar database which was used to identify the influences of climate, fuels, topography, and management. We provide two components: a georeferenced layer in which each fire-scarred tree in seven watersheds is located, along with a list of fire-scarred trees and years in which that tree was scarred for each of the watershed.To provide an in-depth understanding of historical drivers of low-severity fire regimes and the implications for contemporary management in a changing climate.The publications listed in the cross-reference section below all utilize the data archived here. Some of these data may be included in the International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/fire-history). Original metadata date was 05/19/2015. Minor metadata updates on 12/15/2016.