Cedar Creek Fire
2022136,259 acresOregon
The Cedar Creek Fire burned 136,259 acres, about 213 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on August 1, 2022.
Watch how it happenedCedar Creek 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 27% | 36,822 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 19% | 25,959 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 32% | 44,273 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 21% | 28,220 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.7% | 981 |
27% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 36,822 acres; 46% 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.
| Lane County | OR | 129,141 |
| Deschutes County | OR | 7,214 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2022
- Double Creek Fire170,868 acres
- Willow Creek Fire38,557 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.