Cedar Creek Fire

202158,650 acresWashington

The Cedar Creek Fire burned 58,650 acres, about 92 square miles, across Okanogan County. It began on July 8, 2021.

Watch how it happened

Cedar Creek Fire · 2021

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

Detections6,603satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Washington, D.C., to scale61 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (5,297 VIIRS and 1,306 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

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 Cedar Creek Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	26%	15,306
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	28%	16,593
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	35%	20,280
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	11%	6,441
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before	0.1%	30

26% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 15,306 acres; 54% 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

Okanogan County	WA	58,595

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