The Suomi NPP satellite carries an instrument so sensitive to low light levels that it can detect wildfires in the middle of the night.
Published Aug 7, 2012
Thick smoke billowed from fires in Yakutia on July 10, 2012.
Published Jul 12, 2012
Widespread forest fires veiled the forests of Siberia in a thick curtain of smoke on July 18, 2011.
Published Jul 18, 2011
Several pyrocumulus clouds are lofting dense smoke high into the atmosphere.
Published Jun 25, 2017
During spring 2015, several fires lit by farmers escaped control and raced through villages in southern Siberia.
Published Apr 15, 2015
More than 30 taiga wildfires burned in the Far East of Russia on July 10, 2012.
Published Jul 10, 2012
Dozens of fires raged in the southern part of the Siberian region.
Published Jul 12, 2019
Visitors to Russia’s Lake Baikal have been met with smoke and ash from wildfires raging in the area.
Published Aug 14, 2015
Large, smoky fires were burning in the forested mountains of Russia’s Buryatia region and Mongolia’s Belenge province on May 21, 2009.
Published May 21, 2009
Red boxes outline fires burning across Florida, where prescribed burning is a significant land management tool and wildfire is a threat.
Published Feb 23, 2014
Hundreds of fires veiled northern Indochina in smoke as the traditional land-use burning season neared its peak.
Published Mar 19, 2014
The summer of 2012 has proven to be one of the most severe wildfire seasons Russia has faced in a decade.
Published Sep 13, 2012
Several large wildfires burn in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Northern Territories, Canada in this image from June 26, 2011.
Published Jun 28, 2011
