Mile Marker 28 Fire
201325,608 acresWashington
The Mile Marker 28 Fire burned 25,608 acres, about 40 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 24, 2013.
Watch how it happenedMile Marker 28 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 | 22% | 5,633 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 24% | 6,195 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 37% | 9,558 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 16% | 4,211 |
22% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 5,633 acres; 46% 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.
| Klickitat County | WA | 24,568 |
| Yakima County | WA | 1,036 |
Other large fires in Washington in 2013
- Colockum Tarps Fire79,313 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.