Jack Fire

201635,905 acresArizona

The Jack Fire burned 35,905 acres, about 56 square miles, across Coconino County. It began on May 29, 2016.

Watch how it happened

Jack Fire · 2016

How it happened

Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.

About this replay
Date (UTC)—Historical replay
Burned so far—acres
High severity—of the area so far
Detections1,197satellite fire pixels

How severely it burned

Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.

Map of burn severity across the Jack Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered1.5%533
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive16%5,711
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive50%18,047
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change32%11,447
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images0.4%160

1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 533 acres; 17% 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.

Acres burned by county
Coconino CountyAZ35,926

Other large fires in Arizona in 2016

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.