West Fork Complex - East Zone Fire
201334,436 acresColorado
The West Fork Complex - East Zone Fire burned 34,436 acres, about 54 square miles, across Mineral County. It began on June 5, 2013.
Watch how it happenedWest Fork Complex - East Zone 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 | 43% | 14,713 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 33% | 11,408 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 17% | 5,990 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 6.6% | 2,290 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 35 |
43% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 14,713 acres; 76% 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.
| Mineral County | CO | 34,441 |
Other large fires in Colorado in 2013
- Papoose Fire46,997 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.