Mayberry Fire

200826,545 acresColorado

The Mayberry Fire burned 26,545 acres, about 41 square miles, across Moffat County. It began on August 24, 2008.

Watch how it happened

Mayberry Fire · 2008

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

Detections71satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Manhattan, to scale23 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (71 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 Mayberry Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	2.8%	732
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	68%	18,029
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	21%	5,484
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	8.6%	2,295

3% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 732 acres; 71% 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.

Acres burned by county

Moffat County	CO	26,520

Other large fires in Colorado in 2008

Bridger Fire46,591 acres

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