In southern Georgia, the Sweat Farm Road Fire, which began on April 16, continued to burn on April 25, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image.
During the early days of the fire, thousands of residents in and around the town of Waycross were evacuated because of the danger from the rapidly growing blaze. As of Thursday morning, April 26, the Southern Area Coordination Center reported that 58 residences and 30 commercial properties remained threatened. The fire was estimated to be 46,500 acres and about 50 percent contained. In addition to its threat to homes and businesses, the fire was endangering timber resources and wildlife habitat in parks, forests, and the Okefenokee Swamp.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the region in additional resolutions.
NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
