Boulder Fire
200248,469 acresOregon
The Boulder Fire burned 48,469 acres, about 76 square miles, across Douglas County. It began on July 13, 2002.
Watch how it happenedBoulder Fire · 2002
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
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 | 13% | 6,082 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 19% | 9,062 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 34% | 16,301 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 35% | 16,968 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 56 |
13% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 6,082 acres; 31% 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.
| Douglas County | OR | 48,504 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2002
- Biscuit Complex (Biscuit)494,980 acres
- Tool Box Complex (Tool Box)56,333 acres
- Trimbly Creek Fire43,057 acres
- Grizzly Complex (Winter)33,986 acres
- Mahogany Complex (Atkins Butte)33,447 acres
- Timbered Rock Fire26,786 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.