Gladstone Fire
200644,105 acresNew Mexico
The Gladstone Fire burned 44,105 acres, about 69 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 15, 2006.
Watch how it happenedGladstone 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 89% | 39,394 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 8.8% | 3,903 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 1.8% | 808 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
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.
| Harding County | NM | 35,508 |
| Union County | NM | 8,616 |
Other large fires in New Mexico in 2006
- Mcdonald Fire92,781 acres
- Bear Fire34,722 acres
- Casa Fire27,424 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.