Hughes Ranch Fire
200842,376 acresTexas
The Hughes Ranch Fire burned 42,376 acres, about 66 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 4, 2008.
Watch how it happenedHughes 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 0.3% | 121 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 36% | 15,101 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 56% | 23,920 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 7.6% | 3,234 |
under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 121 acres; 36% 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.
| Presidio County | TX | 22,961 |
| Jeff Davis County | TX | 19,448 |
Other large fires in Texas in 2008
- Glass Fire196,982 acres
- Huckabee Fire84,968 acres
- Burns Ranch Fire58,363 acres
- Porter Fire47,619 acres
- Highway 322 Fire44,616 acres
- Eighty-Two Fire31,598 acres
- Stiles Complex27,839 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.