Mosquito Fire
202277,881 acresCalifornia
The Mosquito Fire burned 77,881 acres, about 122 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on September 7, 2022.
Watch how it happenedMosquito 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 | 33% | 25,381 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 29% | 22,360 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 33% | 25,589 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 5.6% | 4,324 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.3% | 221 |
33% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 25,381 acres; 61% 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.
| Placer County | CA | 64,096 |
| El Dorado County | CA | 13,761 |
Other large fires in California in 2022
- Mckinney Fire60,546 acres
- Campbell Fire30,366 acres
- Fairview Fire28,657 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.