Road 702 Fire
202245,160 acresKansas and Nebraska
The Road 702 Fire burned 45,160 acres, about 71 square miles, across 5 counties. It began on April 22, 2022.
Watch how it happenedRoad 702 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 | 87% | 39,125 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 13% | 5,864 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.4% | 171 |
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.
| Red Willow County | NE | 27,980 |
| Furnas County | NE | 15,562 |
| Norton County | KS | 1,231 |
| Frontier County | NE | 391 |
| Decatur County | KS | 11 |
Other large fires in Kansas and Nebraska in 2022
- Road 739 Fire32,983 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.