Rankin Ranch Road Fire
201737,703 acresTexas
The Rankin Ranch Road Fire burned 37,703 acres, about 59 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on March 23, 2017.
Watch how it happenedRankin Ranch Road Fire · 2017
How it happened
See how severely each place burned, revealed outward from where it started.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 80% | 30,058 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 19% | 7,346 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 41 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.7% | 258 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
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.
| Roberts County | TX | 36,052 |
| Ochiltree County | TX | 1,653 |
Other large fires in Texas in 2017
- Perryton Fire290,085 acres
- Lefors East Fire68,690 acres
- Dumas Complex26,170 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.