Figure 2

Empirical cumulative distribution functions for short-interval fires as a function of years, 1984 to 2016 inclusive. Few fires are observed with intervals ≤ 10 years, at which point they become much more common. Intervals > 16 years not shown as there is increasingly less opportunity for those to occur in the dataset due to lack of data, skewing the potential proportions (e.g., it is increasingly downwardly biased). With that caveat, the entire dataset can be seen in Supplementary Fig. S1.