A wildfire in Fresno County, California has burned more than 28,000 acres.
Land Fires
This image from June 9, 2011, shows Arizona’s Wallow Fire in the White Mountains near the border with New Mexico.
Atmosphere Land Fires
The Whitewater-Baldy wildfire is the largest on record in New Mexico.
Fires
Arizona’s Horseshoe Two Fire burns along two fronts in this image from June 14, 2011.
In August 2012, lightning sparked numerous wildfires that burned throughout the western United States.
Image of the Day Land Fires
The blaze is the largest in Arizona this year and the largest in the United States right now.
Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
Taken an hour and a half after the Las Conchas Fire started in the mountains southwest of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on June 26, this image shows the large wildfire well underway.
Astronauts captured this view of smoke billowing from the Fontenelle Fire in Wyoming three days after it began.
Smoke billows from the Wallow Fire in this natural color image taken on June 8, 2011.
Measuring the height of a smoke plume is key to determining how far it might travel.
Image of the Day Fires Human Presence
Dense smoke billows from a massive wildfire—the Wallow Fire—in eastern Arizona in this photo-like image from June 4, 2011.
Atmosphere Land Fires Human Presence
At 369 square miles in size, the Rim Fire is the largest in the United States in 2013.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Dust and Haze Fires
A wildfire north of Phoenix threatened the historic mining community of Crown King.