Neola North Fire

200746,875 acresUtah

The Neola North Fire burned 46,875 acres, about 73 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 29, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Neola North 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
Detections239satellite fire pixels

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 Neola North Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered11%5,324
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive20%9,524
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive25%11,782
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change42%19,574
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before1.4%671

11% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 5,324 acres; 32% 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
Duchesne CountyUT31,937
Uintah CountyUT14,971

Other large fires in Utah in 2007

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