Rattlesnake Fire

2007102,464 acresIdaho

The Rattlesnake Fire burned 102,464 acres, about 160 square miles, across Idaho County. It began on July 13, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Rattlesnake 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

Detections838satellite 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 (838 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 Rattlesnake Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	14%	13,905
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	16%	16,152
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	35%	35,402
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	35%	35,730
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	1.2%	1,205
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images	0.1%	71

14% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 13,905 acres; 29% 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

Idaho County	ID	102,522

Other large fires in Idaho in 2007

Murphy Complex567,212 acres
East Zone Complex (Raines)318,567 acres
Cascade Complex (Monumental)317,014 acres
Battle Creek Complex (Battle Creek)79,057 acres
Black Pine 2 Fire69,896 acres
Highway 93 Complex (West Basin)63,158 acres
Poe Cabin Fire59,657 acres
Murphy Complex (Scott Creek)59,639 acres

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