Table 4 Provincial summary of Sørensen–Dice index of agency polygons compared against FIRED16 and CFSDS25 perimeters.

From: The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset

Province

FIRED vs Agency

CFSDS vs Agency

n

Alberta

0.46 ± 0.33

0.73 ± 0.32

98

British Columbia

0.49 ± 0.32

0.72 ± 0.32

442

Manitoba

0.42 ± 0.29

0.76 ± 0.26

73

Quebec

0.40 ± 0.33

0.77 ± 0.26

85

Saskatchewan

0.47 ± 0.35

0.72 ± 0.31

23

Average

0.47 ± 0.32

0.73 ± 0.31

721

  1. Each sample represents a single day of fire spread for which an agency polygon is available. The reported average is weighted by growth day.
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