King Fire
201499,100 acresCalifornia
The King Fire burned 99,100 acres, about 155 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 13, 2014.
Watch how it happenedKing Fire · 2014
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 | 44% | 43,926 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 20% | 20,106 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 26% | 25,904 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 9.1% | 9,005 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 155 |
44% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 43,926 acres; 65% 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.
| El Dorado County | CA | 69,418 |
| Placer County | CA | 29,651 |
Other large fires in California in 2014
- Happy Camp Complex118,399 acres
- Bald Fire39,760 acres
- Beaver Complex35,178 acres
- Whites Fire34,479 acres
- Knf Beaver Fire34,246 acres
- Eiler Fire30,955 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.