Frye Fire
201754,178 acresArizona
The Frye Fire burned 54,178 acres, about 85 square miles, across Graham County. It began on June 7, 2017.
Watch how it happenedFrye Fire · 2017
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 | 3.6% | 1,933 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 13% | 7,096 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 58% | 31,409 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 23% | 12,294 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 2.7% | 1,437 |
4% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 1,933 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.
| Graham County | AZ | 54,201 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.