Whenever there is a brush fire or forest fire that covers a large amount of territory, how do they determine how many acres have already been burned and how do they determine how much of the fire is actually contained at any given point?

Whenever there is a brush fire or forest fire that covers a large amount of territory, how do they determine how many acres have already been burned and how do they determine how much of the fire is actually contained at any given point?
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As far as “total acres burned” I’d assume it’s done via satellite imagery or by simple plane flyovers. For percentage contained, it’s probably done the same way. They can say certain fires are contained by some criteria. If you overlay an acreage grid on the map, you can figure out roughly how many acres are burned, and roughly how much is contained. Then you can figure out a percentage contained amount / total burning = percent.
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