Bear Fire
200634,722 acresNew Mexico
The Bear Fire burned 34,722 acres, about 54 square miles, across Catron County. It began on June 19, 2006.
Watch how it happenedBear Fire · 2006
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 | 24% | 8,488 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 23% | 8,158 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 22% | 7,473 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 30% | 10,583 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 20 |
24% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 8,488 acres; 48% 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.
| Catron County | NM | 34,703 |
Other large fires in New Mexico in 2006
- Mcdonald Fire92,781 acres
- Gladstone Fire44,105 acres
- Casa Fire27,424 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.