Chuweah Creek Fire
202137,386 acresWashington
The Chuweah Creek Fire burned 37,386 acres, about 58 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 13, 2021.
Watch how it happenedChuweah Creek Fire · 2021
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 | 2.9% | 1,102 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 13% | 4,693 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 36% | 13,537 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 39% | 14,457 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 9.6% | 3,596 |
3% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 1,102 acres; 16% 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.
| Okanogan County | WA | 22,913 |
| Ferry County | WA | 14,483 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.