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On October 27, 2022, Forest Service BAER team specialists completed their field data gathering on federal lands burned by the Bolt Creek, Suiattle, Boulder Lake and Loch Katrine fires. The post-fire maps and data display soil burn severity (SBS) categories of unburned/very low, low, moderate, and high.

 Bolt Creek, Suiattle River, Boulder Lake, and Lake Toketie Fires Wildfire-Associated Landslide Emergency Response Team Report, prepared by Washington Sate Department of Natural Resources Washington Geological Survey

The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (MBSNF) has re-convened a BAER team to re-assess National Forest System (NFS) lands impacted by the Bolt Creek, Boulder Lake, and Suiattle River Fires. A previous BAER team had completed an assessment on most of these fires, however, due to the unseasonably late fire season another assessment was determined to be needed to reassess changes in wildfire impacts from the previous assessment. This assessment will also include the Loch Katrine fire which was not previously assessed.

Soil Burn Severity Maps are now available for the fires. See here for Bolt Creek https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/8429/72412/ and here for the Darrington area https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/8429/72416/What is Soil Burn Severity?

BAER Team Begins Post-Fire Assessment of Bolt Creek Fire near Skykomish, and Boulder Lake, Lake Toketie and Suiattle River Fires near Darrington

FOREST SERVICE BAER PROGRAM OVERVIEW