Badger Fire
202086,896 acresIdaho
The Badger Fire burned 86,896 acres, about 136 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 12, 2020.
Watch how it happenedBadger Fire · 2020
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 | 4.9% | 4,219 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 27% | 23,840 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 52% | 45,544 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 15% | 13,288 |
5% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 4,219 acres; 32% 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.
| Cassia County | ID | 82,911 |
| Twin Falls County | ID | 3,931 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 2020
- Woodhead Fire98,917 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.