Grizzly Complex (Winter)

200233,986 acresOregon

The Grizzly Complex (Winter) burned 33,986 acres, about 53 square miles, across Lake County. It began on July 12, 2002.

Watch how it happened

Grizzly Complex (Winter) · 2002

How it happened

Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.

About this replay
Date (UTC)—Historical replay
Burned so far—acres
High severity—of the area so far
Detections444satellite fire pixels

How severely it burned

Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.

Map of burn severity across the Grizzly Complex (Winter)
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered39%13,284
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive20%6,653
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive15%5,093
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change25%8,585
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before0.8%284
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images0.3%87

39% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 13,284 acres; 59% 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.

Acres burned by county
Lake CountyOR33,987

Other large fires in Oregon in 2002

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.