South Fork Complex
201466,753 acresOregon
The South Fork Complex burned 66,753 acres, about 104 square miles, across Grant County. It began on August 1, 2014.
Watch how it happenedSouth Fork Complex · 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 | 5.8% | 3,903 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 12% | 7,917 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 69% | 45,808 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 11% | 7,435 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 86 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 2.4% | 1,604 |
6% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 3,903 acres; 18% 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.
| Grant County | OR | 66,743 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.