Beachie Creek Fire
2020194,483 acresOregon
The Beachie Creek Fire burned 194,483 acres, about 304 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on August 16, 2020.
Watch how it happenedBeachie Creek 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 | 40% | 77,567 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 22% | 42,572 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 31% | 61,131 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 6.2% | 12,060 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 115 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.5% | 1,037 |
40% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 77,567 acres; 62% 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.
| Marion County | OR | 128,147 |
| Clackamas County | OR | 44,424 |
| Linn County | OR | 22,049 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2020
- Lionshead Fire197,622 acres
- Holiday Farm Fire174,243 acres
- Slater Fire157,657 acres
- Riverside Fire138,087 acres
- Archie Creek Fire131,781 acres
- Brattain Fire51,484 acres
- Indian Creek Fire46,237 acres
- S Obenchain Fire32,853 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.