Stateline Fire

201828,533 acresColorado and New Mexico and Oklahoma

The Stateline Fire burned 28,533 acres, about 45 square miles, across 4 counties. It began on March 8, 2018.

Watch how it happened

Stateline Fire · 2018

How it happened

Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.

About this replay

Date (UTC)—Historical replay

Burned so far—acres

High severity—of the area so far

Detections236satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Manhattan, to scale23 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (199 VIIRS and 37 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

How severely it burned

Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.

Map of burn severity across the Stateline Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	85%	24,296
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	15%	4,153
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.3%	84

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.

Acres burned by county

Union County	NM	18,177
Las Animas County	CO	8,162
Baca County	CO	2,065
Cimarron County	OK	128

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Rhea Fire277,724 acres
Spring Creek Fire107,022 acres
Ok Bar Fire60,481 acres
34 Complex57,492 acres
416 Fire55,178 acres
Buzzard Fire51,028 acres
Badger Hole Fire49,177 acres
206 Fire40,246 acres

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.