Wiley Flat Fire

202430,268 acresOregon

The Wiley Flat Fire burned 30,268 acres, about 47 square miles, across Crook County. It began on September 2, 2024.

Watch how it happened

Wiley Flat Fire · 2024

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

Detections1,624satellite fire pixels

Fire milestones

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

Burning nowAreas reached in the last half day of satellite passes

Manhattan, to scale23 square miles of land, drawn at the fire’s scale

Timing: NASA FIRMS satellite fire detections (1,414 VIIRS and 210 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 Wiley Flat Fire

Burn severity by class
Severity	Share	Acres
Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered	17%	5,130
Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive	18%	5,563
Lowsurface fire, most trees survive	58%	17,657
Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change	6.3%	1,906

17% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 5,130 acres; 35% 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.

Acres burned by county

Crook County	OR	30,253

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