Tool Box Complex (Tool Box)

200256,333 acresOregon

The Tool Box Complex (Tool Box) burned 56,333 acres, about 88 square miles, across Lake County. It began on July 12, 2002.

Watch how it happened

Tool Box Complex (Tool Box) · 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

Detections803satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Washington, D.C., to scale61 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (803 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

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 Tool Box Complex (Tool Box)

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	27%	14,947
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	27%	15,074
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	17%	9,804
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	27%	15,149
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.2%	90
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images	2.3%	1,268

27% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 14,947 acres; 53% 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 County	OR	56,341

Other large fires in Oregon in 2002

Biscuit Complex (Biscuit)494,980 acres
Boulder Fire48,469 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.