Eighty-Two Fire
200831,598 acresTexas
The Eighty-Two Fire burned 31,598 acres, about 49 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on March 14, 2008.
Watch how it happenedEighty-Two 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 35% | 11,059 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 53% | 16,643 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 11% | 3,550 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 1.1% | 346 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 35% 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.
| King County | TX | 28,753 |
| Knox County | TX | 2,857 |
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- Glass Fire196,982 acres
- Huckabee Fire84,968 acres
- Burns Ranch Fire58,363 acres
- Porter Fire47,619 acres
- Highway 322 Fire44,616 acres
- Hughes Ranch Fire42,376 acres
- Stiles Complex27,839 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.