Monument Complex (Red Hill Fire)

200754,576 acresOregon

The Monument Complex (Red Hill Fire) burned 54,576 acres, about 85 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 12, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Monument Complex (Red Hill 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

Detections214satellite 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 (214 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 Monument Complex (Red Hill Fire)

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	7.2%	3,944
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	34%	18,706
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	27%	14,789
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	31%	17,074
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.1%	63

7% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 3,944 acres; 42% 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

Grant County	OR	44,372
Morrow County	OR	10,199

Other large fires in Oregon in 2007

Egley Complex (Egley)139,679 acres
Battle Creek Complex (Battle Creek)79,057 acres
Poe Cabin Fire59,657 acres
Irish Spring Fire47,814 acres
Bartlett Mountain Fire31,827 acres
Clark Butte Fire31,307 acres
Juniper Reservoir Fire28,437 acres

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