Little Queens Fire
201327,541 acresIdaho
The Little Queens Fire burned 27,541 acres, about 43 square miles, across Elmore County. It began on August 17, 2013.
Watch how it happenedLittle Queens Fire · 2013
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 | 19% | 5,113 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 28% | 7,848 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 33% | 9,056 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 20% | 5,404 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 18 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.4% | 101 |
19% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 5,113 acres; 47% 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.
| Elmore County | ID | 27,550 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 2013
- Pony Complex148,112 acres
- Elk Complex129,508 acres
- Beaver Creek Fire111,308 acres
- Gold Pan Complex43,216 acres
- State Fire30,992 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.