Turkey Fire
199025,644 acresMontana
The Turkey Fire burned 25,644 acres, about 40 square miles, across Judith Basin County. It began on November 23, 1990.
Watch how it happenedTurkey Fire · 1990
How it happened
See how severely each place burned, revealed outward from where it started.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 8.9% | 2,279 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 12% | 3,174 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 58% | 14,783 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 16% | 4,204 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 1.1% | 292 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 3.6% | 912 |
9% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,279 acres; 21% burned at moderate or high severity.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Judith Basin County | MT | 25,661 |
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.