Contreras Fire
202231,281 acresArizona
The Contreras Fire burned 31,281 acres, about 49 square miles, across Pima County. It began on June 11, 2022.
Watch how it happenedContreras 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 | 4.8% | 1,489 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 49% | 15,442 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 38% | 11,793 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 8.1% | 2,540 |
5% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 1,489 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.
| Pima County | AZ | 31,300 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.