Unnamed Fire
201451,143 acresOklahoma
The Unnamed Fire burned 51,143 acres, about 80 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on February 23, 2014.
Watch how it happenedUnnamed 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 80% | 40,843 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 18% | 9,375 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 1.8% | 925 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
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.
| Nowata County | OK | 35,235 |
| Washington County | OK | 15,877 |
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 2014
- Unnamed Fire36,146 acres
- Unnamed Fire32,939 acres
- Higgins Fire28,449 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Other.