Sawpit Creek Fire
202227,898 acresAlaska
The Sawpit Creek Fire burned 27,898 acres, about 44 square miles, across Bethel Census Area. It began on June 8, 2022.
Watch how it happenedSawpit Creek 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 | 50% | 13,949 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 37% | 10,313 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 12% | 3,368 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.9% | 255 |
50% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 13,949 acres; 87% 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.
| Bethel Census Area | AK | 27,923 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.