Eagle Creek Fire

201748,787 acresOregon

The Eagle Creek Fire burned 48,787 acres, about 76 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 2, 2017.

Watch how it happened

Eagle Creek 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

Detections1,283satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Washington, D.C., to scale61 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (991 VIIRS and 292 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

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 Eagle Creek Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	35%	17,044
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	25%	12,423
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	28%	13,728
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	11%	5,577

35% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 17,044 acres; 60% 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

Hood River County	OR	29,809
Multnomah County	OR	19,007

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