Sweat Farm Road Fire
200752,477 acresGeorgia
The Sweat Farm Road Fire burned 52,477 acres, about 82 square miles, across Ware County. It began on April 16, 2007.
Watch how it happenedSweat Farm Road Fire · 2007
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 9.1% | 4,801 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 35% | 18,152 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 34% | 17,599 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 12% | 6,041 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 11% | 5,885 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 9% burned at moderate 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.
| Ware County | GA | 52,494 |
Other large fires in Georgia in 2007
- Big Turnaround Complex328,707 acres
- Big Turnaround Complex (Floyds Island Prairie)215,291 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.