Wood Hollow Fire

201246,734 acresUtah

The Wood Hollow Fire burned 46,734 acres, about 73 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 23, 2012.

Watch how it happened

Wood Hollow Fire · 2012

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
Detections765satellite fire pixels

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 Wood Hollow Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive11%5,262
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive50%23,406
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change13%6,132
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images26%11,920

No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 11% 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.

Acres burned by county
Sanpete CountyUT42,837
Utah CountyUT3,926

Other large fires in Utah in 2012

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