Soda Fire
2015282,664 acresIdaho and Oregon
The Soda Fire burned 282,664 acres, about 442 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on August 10, 2015.
Watch how it happenedSoda Fire · 2015
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 14% | 38,681 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 68% | 192,384 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 8.0% | 22,499 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 150 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 10% | 28,950 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 14% burned at moderate 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.
| Owyhee County | ID | 230,251 |
| Malheur County | OR | 52,637 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.