Borrega Fire
202254,552 acresTexas
The Borrega Fire burned 54,552 acres, about 85 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on March 30, 2022.
Watch how it happenedBorrega Fire · 2022
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 | 92% | 50,170 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 6.1% | 3,347 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 1.8% | 994 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.1% | 40 |
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.
| Kleberg County | TX | 53,098 |
| Jim Wells County | TX | 844 |
| Brooks County | TX | 631 |
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- Kidd Fire41,923 acres
- Canadian River Bottom Fire37,638 acres
- Washita River Fire35,397 acres
- Coconut Fire27,939 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.