This document describes a method for analyzing wildfire season severity (FSS) in relation to oceanic climate drivers. It involves taking a 9-month window around the peak fire month each year, calculating a 3-month moving average, and correlating this fire severity score (FSS) to values representing sea surface temperature anomaly (ONI and AMO). Three experiments are described that involve bootstrapping and randomizing the climate driver data to test the robustness and significance of observed correlations between FSS and oceanic variables.