Crutch Fire
201645,056 acresTexas
The Crutch Fire burned 45,056 acres, about 70 square miles, across 4 counties. It began on March 23, 2016.
Watch how it happenedCrutch 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 17% | 7,591 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 76% | 34,200 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 6.4% | 2,906 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.8% | 358 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 17% 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.
| Hutchinson County | TX | 13,044 |
| Gray County | TX | 12,840 |
| Roberts County | TX | 11,833 |
| Carson County | TX | 7,335 |
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.