Black Pine 2 Fire

200769,896 acresIdaho and Utah

The Black Pine 2 Fire burned 69,896 acres, about 109 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on July 6, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Black Pine 2 Fire · 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

Detections247satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

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

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Washington, D.C., to scale61 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (247 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 Black Pine 2 Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	0.5%	335
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	3.6%	2,504
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	47%	32,661
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	49%	34,243
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.2%	153

under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 335 acres; 4% 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.

Acres burned by county

Cassia County	ID	69,671
Oneida County	ID	124
Box Elder County	UT	101

Other large fires in Idaho and Utah in 2007

Murphy Complex567,212 acres
Milford Flat Fire348,702 acres
East Zone Complex (Raines)318,567 acres
Cascade Complex (Monumental)317,014 acres
Winecup Complex (West Fork)159,891 acres
Rattlesnake Fire102,464 acres
Battle Creek Complex (Battle Creek)79,057 acres
Highway 93 Complex (West Basin)63,158 acres

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