Fire history

Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes. It gives an estimate of a natural disturbance regime's historical range of variability and can be used to identify the processes affecting fire occurrence. Fire history reconstructions are achieved by compiling atlases of past fires, using the tree ring record from fire scars and tree ages and the charcoal record from soils and sediments.

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