Tweedy Point Fire

200536,146 acresArizona

The Tweedy Point Fire burned 36,146 acres, about 56 square miles, across Mohave County. It began on June 30, 2005.

Watch how it happened

Tweedy Point Fire · 2005

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
Detections139satellite 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 Tweedy Point Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered0.2%64
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive9.5%3,436
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive66%23,886
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change24%8,755

under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 64 acres; 10% 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
Mohave CountyAZ36,125

Other large fires in Arizona in 2005

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