In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008.
Published Jul 1, 2009
The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
Published Aug 8, 2019
The fires and resulting burn scars shown in these true-color images help maintain healthy savanna ecosystems in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
Published Sep 25, 2010
The Cameron Peak and August Complex fires have punctuated a year of natural drama in the American West.
Published Oct 21, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
It is not even summertime, but already the United Kingdom has seen a significant number of wildfires.
Published May 6, 2019
A NASA project is providing maps of satellite data to emergency response teams during the Woolsey Fire.
Published Nov 16, 2018
Research shows that very similar boreal landscapes produce very different types of fires.
Published Feb 4, 2015
Satellites detect fires that are not necessarily being reported. Scientists are taking note and compiling global views of fire behavior and evolution.
Published Oct 22, 2018
Acquired September 27, 2009, this true-color image shows hotspots and smoke plumes associated with wildfires in northwestern Wyoming. The largest fire, Arnica, sends thick smoke plumes over Yellowstone Lake.
Published Sep 29, 2009
Prairies can’t exist without fire, so burning is essential to preserving the last remaining tallgrass prairie in North America.
Published Apr 9, 2014
Smoke billows over the mountainous backcountry near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in this image from August 23, 2011. Started by lightning, the wildfire is burning through insect-damaged forest, beginning the process that will renew the ecosystem.
Published Sep 3, 2011
Fire is ubiquitous, both a tool and a destructive force. Like plants, fire grows and wanes in seasons.
Published Dec 31, 2008
Hundreds of fires veiled northern Indochina in smoke as the traditional land-use burning season neared its peak.
Published Mar 19, 2014
The blaze is the largest in Arizona this year and the largest in the United States right now.
Published Jun 16, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
One of a number of large wildfires that have affected northern California in 2012, the Chips fire burned more than 75,000 acres by the time firefighters had contained it.
Published Sep 5, 2012
