Brooklyn Fire

201739,752 acresArizona

The Brooklyn Fire burned 39,752 acres, about 62 square miles, across Yavapai County. It began on July 7, 2017.

Watch how it happened

Brooklyn Fire · 2017

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
Detections123satellite 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 Brooklyn Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive3.7%1,452
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive80%31,809
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change16%6,490

No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 4% 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.

Acres burned by county
Yavapai CountyAZ39,780

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