Little Venus Fire
200633,472 acresWyoming
The Little Venus Fire burned 33,472 acres, about 52 square miles, across Park County. It began on June 19, 2006.
Watch how it happenedLittle Venus 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 | 7.8% | 2,612 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 20% | 6,728 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 23% | 7,599 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 41% | 13,781 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 1.1% | 365 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 7.1% | 2,388 |
8% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,612 acres; 28% 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.
| Park County | WY | 33,490 |
Other large fires in Wyoming in 2006
- Buffalo Creek Fire37,611 acres
- Old Chicago Fire25,198 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.