Spring Creek Fire
2018107,022 acresColorado
The Spring Creek Fire burned 107,022 acres, about 167 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 27, 2018.
Watch how it happenedSpring Creek 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 | 16% | 17,038 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 25% | 27,287 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 46% | 48,773 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 13% | 13,580 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 118 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.2% | 226 |
16% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 17,038 acres; 41% 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.
| Huerfano County | CO | 81,194 |
| Costilla County | CO | 25,914 |
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- Badger Hole Fire49,177 acres
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- Ryan Fire28,851 acres
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.