0655 Razor Back East Fire
201165,339 acresOregon
The 0655 Razor Back East Fire burned 65,339 acres, about 102 square miles, across Wasco County. It began on August 24, 2011.
Watch how it happened0655 Razor Back East Fire · 2011
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 | 0.1% | 80 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 10% | 6,573 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 69% | 45,212 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 10% | 6,645 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 10% | 6,821 |
under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 80 acres; 10% 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.
| Wasco County | OR | 65,350 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2011
- Hancock Complex71,576 acres
- High Cascades Fire44,476 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.