What makes a good fire index? An evaluation of fire indices’ ability to represent daily risks of fire ignition and spread in the western United States
Bowen Wang1, Park Williams2, Dara Entekhabi3, Gavin Dayanga Madakumbura2, Stefan Rahimi4, Lei Huang5 and Alex Hall6, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
