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BAER teams complete Soil Burn Severity map for Dragon Bravo Fire

August 24, 2025 · Source: National Park Service

A soil burn severity map showing in different colors the burn extent. The SBS map estimates approximately 9,851 acres (7%) of the fire is unburned/very low, approximately 97,724 acres (65%) have low soil burn severity, approximately 38,354 acres (26%) sus — Image supplied by the National Park Service. View the original image and credit

Interagency Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams from the Department of the Interior (DOI) and US Forest Service recently completed field data evaluations to produce the Soil Burn Severity (SBS) map for the Dragon Bravo Fire. This map field-verifies the accuracy of burn severity categories (unburned/very low, low, moderate, and high) from satellite images and helps estimate post-fire risks, such as erosion, sediment washing into streams, increased stream flows, and the chances of debris flows.

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