Tenbrook Fire
200230,581 acresNorth Dakota
The Tenbrook Fire burned 30,581 acres, about 48 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 5, 2002.
Watch how it happenedTenbrook 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 83% | 25,429 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 12% | 3,600 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 21 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 5.0% | 1,531 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
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.
| Sioux County | ND | 24,372 |
| Grant County | ND | 6,215 |
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.