Cliff Creek Fire
201636,106 acresWyoming
The Cliff Creek Fire burned 36,106 acres, about 56 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 17, 2016.
Watch how it happenedCliff Creek Fire · 2016
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 | 18% | 6,501 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 25% | 8,939 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 37% | 13,237 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 20% | 7,296 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.4% | 129 |
18% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 6,501 acres; 43% 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.
| Sublette County | WY | 24,776 |
| Teton County | WY | 11,355 |
Other large fires in Wyoming in 2016
- Beaver Creek Fire44,198 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.