Long Draw Fire
2012557,211 acresOregon
The Long Draw Fire burned 557,211 acres, about 871 square miles, across Malheur County. It began on July 8, 2012.
Watch how it happenedLong Draw Fire · 2012
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 | 56% | 310,265 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 42% | 234,282 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 2.3% | 12,664 |
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.
| Malheur County | OR | 557,621 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2012
- Holloway Fire457,680 acres
- Miller Homestead Fire163,342 acres
- Barry Point Fire91,493 acres
- Cache Creek Fire75,463 acres
- Pole Creek Fire26,972 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.