Silver Dollar Fire
201730,795 acresWashington
The Silver Dollar Fire burned 30,795 acres, about 48 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 2, 2017.
Watch how it happenedSilver Dollar 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 13% | 3,975 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 83% | 25,453 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 4.0% | 1,228 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.5% | 139 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 13% 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.
| Benton County | WA | 22,913 |
| Yakima County | WA | 7,875 |
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- Jolly Mountain Fire38,148 acres
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.