Oks - Selman Fire
201744,738 acresOklahoma
The Oks - Selman Fire burned 44,738 acres, about 70 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on March 7, 2017.
Watch how it happenedOks - Selman 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 | 3.4% | 1,517 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 10% | 4,590 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 74% | 32,972 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 12% | 5,483 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.4% | 161 |
3% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 1,517 acres; 14% 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.
| Harper County | OK | 26,735 |
| Woodward County | OK | 18,032 |
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 2017
- Oks - Starbuck Fire656,868 acres
- Perryton Fire290,085 acres
- Oks - 283 Fire68,511 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.