Road 739 Fire

202232,983 acresNebraska

The Road 739 Fire burned 32,983 acres, about 52 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on April 7, 2022.

Watch how it happened

Road 739 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

Detections107satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

Burn severityHigh, Moderate, Low, Unburned to low, Increased greenness

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

San Francisco, to scale47 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (102 VIIRS and 5 MODIS) inside the final perimeter; each place takes the time of its nearest detection, so the order is satellite-observed but interpolated between passes, roughly every 12 hours. Severity: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS, U.S. Forest Service), mapped from Landsat after the fire.

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 Road 739 Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	88%	28,929
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	12%	4,028

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

Gosper County	NE	24,734
Furnas County	NE	8,263

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Road 702 Fire45,160 acres

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