Badger Hole Fire
201849,177 acresColorado and Kansas
The Badger Hole Fire burned 49,177 acres, about 77 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on April 17, 2018.
Watch how it happenedBadger Hole Fire · 2018
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 92% | 45,113 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 7.4% | 3,625 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.9% | 439 |
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.
| Baca County | CO | 32,548 |
| Stanton County | KS | 15,241 |
| Morton County | KS | 1,357 |
Other large fires in Colorado and Kansas in 2018
- Spring Creek Fire107,022 acres
- 416 Fire55,178 acres
- Bull Draw Fire37,237 acres
- Ryan Fire28,851 acres
- Stateline Fire28,533 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.