Miller Homestead Fire
2012163,342 acresOregon
The Miller Homestead Fire burned 163,342 acres, about 255 square miles, across Harney County. It began on July 8, 2012.
Watch how it happenedMiller Homestead 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 17% | 27,371 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 65% | 106,509 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 8.0% | 13,061 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 252 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 9.9% | 16,149 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 17% 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.
| Harney County | OR | 163,356 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.