Red House Complex

200765,552 acresNevada

The Red House Complex burned 65,552 acres, about 102 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 17, 2007.

Watch how it happened

Red House 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

Detections232satellite 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 (232 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 Red House Complex

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	95%	62,135
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	3.3%	2,163
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images	1.9%	1,254

Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.

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

Elko County	NV	35,277
Eureka County	NV	30,322

Other large fires in Nevada in 2007

Murphy Complex567,212 acres
Winecup Complex (West Fork)159,891 acres
Antelope Complex130,052 acres
Highway 93 Complex (West Basin)63,158 acres
Murphy Complex (Scott Creek)59,639 acres
Tungsten Fire58,329 acres
Hepworth Complex (Hepworth)40,304 acres

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