Cole Fire
200639,443 acresTexas
The Cole Fire burned 39,443 acres, about 62 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on January 1, 2006.
Watch how it happenedCole 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 | 0.1% | 21 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 11% | 4,161 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 34% | 13,420 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 55% | 21,788 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 54 |
under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 21 acres; 11% 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.
| Sterling County | TX | 29,464 |
| Tom Green County | TX | 9,699 |
| Coke County | TX | 271 |
Other large fires in Texas in 2006
- East Amarillo Complex593,293 acres
- Mcdonald Fire92,781 acres
- Rocker B Fire37,379 acres
- Carbon Fire32,990 acres
- Buckle L 2 Fire25,166 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.