Winter Camp Fire

201829,271 acresIdaho

The Winter Camp Fire burned 29,271 acres, about 46 square miles, across Owyhee County. It began on July 17, 2018.

Watch how it happened

Winter Camp 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
Detections123satellite fire pixels

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 Winter Camp Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive98%28,678
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change2.0%593

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
Owyhee CountyID29,281

Other large fires in Idaho in 2018

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