Snider Fire
202033,231 acresMontana
The Snider Fire burned 33,231 acres, about 52 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on September 2, 2020.
Watch how it happenedSnider 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 90% | 29,788 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 9.7% | 3,217 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.7% | 221 |
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.
| Custer County | MT | 24,512 |
| Rosebud County | MT | 5,825 |
| Powder River County | MT | 2,908 |
Other large fires in Montana in 2020
- Sarpy Fire51,605 acres
- Huff Fire41,768 acres
- Bobcat Fire30,661 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.