Sharps Fire
201863,923 acresIdaho
The Sharps Fire burned 63,923 acres, about 100 square miles, across Blaine County. It began on July 29, 2018.
Watch how it happenedSharps 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 | 17% | 10,959 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 42% | 27,153 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 38% | 24,087 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 2.5% | 1,623 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 101 |
17% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 10,959 acres; 60% 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.
| Blaine County | ID | 63,894 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 2018
- Grassy Ridge Fire106,102 acres
- Bruneau Fire87,633 acres
- Mesa Fire34,517 acres
- Rabbit Foot Fire33,812 acres
- Winter Camp Fire29,271 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.