Jennies Peak 1039 Rn Fire
201847,702 acresOregon
The Jennies Peak 1039 Rn Fire burned 47,702 acres, about 75 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on August 17, 2018.
Watch how it happenedJennies Peak 1039 Rn 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 | 69% | 33,050 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 31% | 14,601 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 51 |
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.
| Wheeler County | OR | 47,507 |
| Jefferson County | OR | 157 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.