Spatiotemporal Changes in Hourly Burning Index Across the Western United States, 1985-2024

The data and code are provided to support the paper "Spatiotemporal Changes in Hourly Burning Index Across the Western United States, 1985–2024." The script `5_task2_task3_fire_season_plot_multiple_var_beast_speed_up_NLDAS_pete.py` uses the output from NFDRS4 as its input (refer to the paper for the specific rules used to run NFDRS4); the results generated by this script are contained in the file `AllVars_FireSeason_trends_1985_NLDAS.zip`. The script `5_task2_task3_fire_season_plot_multiple_var_beast_speed_up_NLDAS_pete.py` processes these inputs to produce all the figures presented in the paper and its supporting information.