Zogg Fire

202056,904 acresCalifornia

The Zogg Fire burned 56,904 acres, about 89 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 27, 2020.

Watch how it happened

Zogg 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
Detections1,945satellite 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 Zogg Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered12%6,889
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive28%16,189
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive56%31,944
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change3.0%1,735
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before0.1%29
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images0.2%117

12% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 6,889 acres; 41% 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
Shasta CountyCA52,587
Tehama CountyCA4,357

Other large fires in California in 2020

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