Kidd Fire

202241,923 acresTexas

The Kidd Fire burned 41,923 acres, about 66 square miles, across Eastland County. It began on March 17, 2022.

Watch how it happened

Kidd Fire · 2022

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
Detections278satellite fire pixels

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 Kidd Fire
Burn severity by class
SeverityShareAcres
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive93%39,055
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change6.3%2,636
Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before0.1%24
Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images0.5%207

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.

Acres burned by county
Eastland CountyTX41,950

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