San Luis Fire
201836,252 acresNew Mexico
The San Luis Fire burned 36,252 acres, about 57 square miles, across Hidalgo County. It began on May 16, 2018.
Watch how it happenedSan Luis 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 5.0% | 1,797 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 21% | 7,599 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 63% | 22,684 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 11% | 4,167 |
5% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 1,797 acres; 26% 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.
| Hidalgo County | NM | 16,997 |
Other large fires in New Mexico in 2018
- Ok Bar Fire60,481 acres
- Buzzard Fire51,028 acres
- 206 Fire40,246 acres
- Ute Park Fire30,150 acres
- Stateline Fire28,533 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.