The Burned Area Emergency Response team has found that only 53 acres of the 56-hundred acres burned on the Haywire Fire was identified as having high soil damage. The Soil Burn Severity Map shows 81-percent, or over 45-hundred acres, has low soil burn severity, with eight percent, or 474 acres going unburned.
The SBS map product is an estimate of fire effects to soils both surface-level and below ground, not fire effects to vegetation. Fire effects to vegetation would include an estimate of vegetation mortality and does not always correlate with degree of soil burn severity.
The BAER team that conducted the SBS analysis of the Haywire Fire recently concluded similar field data collection and evaluation on the nearby Pipeline Fire.
