Extreme weather and increasing forest insect outbreaks can quickly prime forests for increased wildfire frequency and extreme fire behavior. Multiple studies suggest that fire regimes may already be changing, due to worldwide climate change. This represents an important challenge for managers who must deal with fire’s important role in ecological resilience and as a serious threat to public safety. Quantifying fire impacts across broad spatial expanses is integral to advances in wildland fire research and to improve fire management strategies. Remote sensing techniques, using the middle and near infrared bands, are now commonly used by researchers and managers to assess fire severity; however multiple studies have yielded inconsistent results between systems. Many studies have not compared results however to physical change in forest mass, but rather visual criteria. Here we present our ongoing fire severity study in the high fire frequency New Jersey Pinelands.