Burns Ranch Fire
200858,363 acresTexas
The Burns Ranch Fire burned 58,363 acres, about 91 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on March 18, 2008.
Watch how it happenedBurns Ranch Fire · 2008
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 69% | 40,489 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 3.8% | 2,191 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 27% | 15,682 |
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.
| Hidalgo County | TX | 49,966 |
| Brooks County | TX | 4,765 |
| Starr County | TX | 3,663 |
Other large fires in Texas in 2008
- Glass Fire196,982 acres
- Huckabee Fire84,968 acres
- Porter Fire47,619 acres
- Highway 322 Fire44,616 acres
- Hughes Ranch Fire42,376 acres
- Eighty-Two Fire31,598 acres
- Stiles Complex27,839 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.