Holiday Farm Fire

2020174,243 acresOregon

The Holiday Farm Fire burned 174,243 acres, about 272 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 8, 2020.

Watch how it happened

Holiday Farm Fire · 2020

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
Detections11,527satellite 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 Holiday Farm Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered34%58,680
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive30%51,486
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive27%46,238
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change8.9%15,586
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before0.8%1,401
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images0.5%852

34% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 58,680 acres; 63% 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.

Acres burned by county
Lane CountyOR161,028
Linn CountyOR13,353

Other large fires in Oregon in 2020

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