Acquired September 9, 2011, these images provide two views of the Bear Creek Fire burn scars in northeastern Texas.
Land Fires
The Whitewater-Baldy Fire is the largest on record in New Mexico.
The EO-1 satellite observed the burn scar from the Little Bear Fire.
Acquired September 6, 2011, this natural-color image shows fires burning around Dallas and Houston, Texas, and Shreveport, Louisiana.
Acquired September 3, 2011, this false-color image shows the burn scar from the 101 Ranch Fire in Palo Pinto County, Texas.
Image of the Day Land Fires Human Presence
The largest fire in Washington’s state history charred tens of thousands of acres and destroyed 322 homes in summer 2014.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Fires
This Landsat-5 image shows the land burned in the Cooper Mountain Ranch Fire in central Texas.
This Landsat image, taken on May 2, 2011, shows all 314,444 acres burned in the Rockhouse Fire in southwestern Texas.
Land Life Fires
These images show the extent of wildfires burning in the Cascade Mountains southeast of Portland, Oregon.
Burn scars dot the state of Texas in this image from April 30, 2011.
The Landsat-5 satellite acquired this image of the Swenson Fire burn scar on April 18, 2011.