Peppin Fire
200460,500 acresNew Mexico
The Peppin Fire burned 60,500 acres, about 95 square miles, across Lincoln County. It began on May 15, 2004.
Watch how it happenedPeppin Fire · 2004
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 | 3.5% | 2,098 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 23% | 13,766 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 50% | 30,317 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 23% | 14,166 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.3% | 154 |
3% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,098 acres; 26% 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.
| Lincoln County | NM | 60,545 |
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.