Wash Fire
201539,438 acresIdaho
The Wash Fire burned 39,438 acres, about 62 square miles, across Idaho County. It began on August 15, 2015.
Watch how it happenedWash 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 11% | 4,250 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 30% | 11,960 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 48% | 19,076 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 10% | 4,120 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 32 |
11% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 4,250 acres; 41% 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.
| Idaho County | ID | 39,448 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 2015
- Soda Fire282,664 acres
- Tepee Springs Fire94,816 acres
- Kamiah Gulch Fire48,427 acres
- Crown Fire30,478 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.