October 1, 2020. After a brief lull, a late-September heat wave reinvigorated California’s already brutal 2020 fire season. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)…
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Bobcat Fire Scorches Southern California – One of the Largest Fires on Record for Los Angeles County
September 21, 2020. (Click image for high resolution version.) After burning more than 180 square miles (460 square kilometers) of the San Gabriel Mountains in…
In this image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on September 16, fires can be seen burning on the west coast of the US, with…
This map overlays the probability of burn severity in California’s northern coastal mountains, as forecasted in a UC Davis study, with burn perimeters of wildfires…
August 27, 2020 The Pantanal, a vast floodplain in South America, is among the largest wetlands in the world. The mosaic of grasslands, shrublands, forests,…
A NASA aircraft equipped with Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) flew above California fires on September 3 and 10 to examine the ground…
This visualization shows a three-day average of carbon monoxide concentrations, from Sept. 6 to 14, in the atmosphere over California due to wildfires. Higher concentrations…
September 9, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Climate and fire scientists have long anticipated that fires in the U.S. West would grow larger, more…
September 9, 2020 Wildfires continue to rage in the western United States. On September 9, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra…
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds changing direction on September 6, 2020, when choking…
Danger Zone: NASA’s Terra Highlights Aerosols From U.S. Fires – Worst Since the “Big Blowup” of 1910
Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just added to the year’s woes.…
In this image, multiple fires can be seen in the states of California, Washington and Oregon – the areas hit hardest by the blazes –…
This series of GIF images shows the development of the Creek fire from September 5 through September 7, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September…
September 7, 2020 Intense heat, winds, and drought have fueled smoky infernos in the western United States. Though serious fires burned in California and other…
September 2, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution version.) In the late morning of September 2, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra…
Captured by the ASTER instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, this false-color map shows the burn area of the River and Carmel fires in Monterey County,…
NASA’s Terra satellite shows a smoke-covered California on August 24, 2020. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) In August 2020,…
NASA’s Terra satellite captures this image of the burn scars from both the LNU Lightning fire complex and the SCU Lightning fire complex in California…
NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP was able to image this nighttime image of the California fires on Aug. 20, 2020. This image does not have the Visible…
August 21, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) On August 21, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured natural-color imagery of…