Star Mountain Fire
200645,204 acresOregon
The Star Mountain Fire burned 45,204 acres, about 71 square miles, across Malheur County. It began on August 21, 2006.
Watch how it happenedStar Mountain 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 | 6.0% | 2,712 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 29% | 12,894 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 53% | 23,935 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 13% | 5,662 |
6% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,712 acres; 35% 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.
| Malheur County | OR | 45,242 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2006
- Happy Valley Fire72,025 acres
- Pueblo Fire67,830 acres
- Foster Gulch Fire52,456 acres
- Granddad Fire29,323 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.