Westside Complex
200558,824 acresUtah
The Westside Complex burned 58,824 acres, about 92 square miles, across Washington County. It began on June 23, 2005.
Watch how it happenedWestside Complex · 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 | 19% | 11,347 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 48% | 28,447 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 24% | 14,206 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 8.2% | 4,823 |
19% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 11,347 acres; 68% 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.
| Washington County | UT | 58,767 |
Other large fires in Utah in 2005
- Southern Nevada Complex (Duzak)327,383 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.