The california data frame has 16577 rows and 2 columns.
The first column contains the date, the second
column gives the quantity of acres consumed by the flames.
This data frame contains the following columns:
A numeric vector of dates of wildfires.
A numeric vector of thousands of acres consumed by the flames.
Data are available from GitHub
and hence can be gathered using the command dataset("california").
de Carvalho, M., Huser, R., Naveau, P., and Reich, B. J. (2026). Handbook on Statistics of Extremes. Chapman & Hall/CRC. Boca Raton, FL.