Valley Road Fire
200540,802 acresIdaho
The Valley Road Fire burned 40,802 acres, about 64 square miles, across Custer County. It began on September 3, 2005.
Watch how it happenedValley Road Fire · 2005
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 | 37% | 15,049 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 21% | 8,375 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 20% | 8,225 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 22% | 9,087 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 65 |
37% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 15,049 acres; 57% 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.
| Custer County | ID | 40,801 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 2005
- Clover Fire198,974 acres
- Rupert Fire45,415 acres
- Granite Complex37,301 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.