Big Turnaround Complex

2007328,707 acresFlorida and Georgia

The Big Turnaround Complex burned 328,707 acres, about 514 square miles, across 5 counties. It began on April 25, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Big Turnaround Complex · 2007

How it happened

Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.

About this replay

Date (UTC)—Historical replay

Burned so far—acres

High severity—of the area so far

Detections1,126satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Los Angeles, to scale470 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (1,126 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

How severely it burned

Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.

Map of burn severity across the Big Turnaround Complex

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	0.7%	2,448
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	62%	204,587
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	29%	96,403
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images	7.7%	25,269

No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 1% burned at moderate 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.

Acres burned by county

Ware County	GA	139,791
Baker County	FL	85,095
Columbia County	FL	41,608
Charlton County	GA	36,681
Clinch County	GA	25,653

Other large fires in Florida and Georgia in 2007

Big Turnaround Complex (Floyds Island Prairie)215,291 acres
Bicy Complex60,595 acres
Sweat Farm Road Fire52,477 acres
Moonshine Bay Fire38,633 acres
Mfc South Fire37,266 acres
Unnamed Fire32,568 acres

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.