A complex of fires in southwestern Colorado blazed through beetle-killed spruce forests in June 2013.
Published Jun 24, 2013
Within a few days, four large wildfires burned 400 square miles of land in the mountains and prairies of central Idaho.
Published Aug 14, 2013
Wildfires are burning across a region struck by extremely hot, dry conditions.
Published Aug 4, 2017
The Lateral West fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia blanketed the beaches of North Carolina with thick smoke on August 10, 2011.
Published Aug 10, 2011
Acquired June 5, 2011, this natural-color image shows thick smoke from Arizona traveling northward through Colorado.
Published Jun 6, 2011
Satellite data is helping scientists size up one of the most intense outbreaks of fire and smoke that Oregon and California have seen in decades.
Published Sep 11, 2020Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
Twenty days after being ignited by lightning, California’s Lion Fire continues to grow.
Published Jul 29, 2011
Thick smoke pours from the fires in the Honey Prairie Complex in this image from June 19, 2011.
Published Jun 20, 2011
By early September 2020, more than a quarter million acres had burned within the August Complex fire in Mendocino National Forest.
Published Sep 3, 2020Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
California’s Carr Fire was one of 98 large, active fires delivering smoke across the United States in late July.
Published Jul 31, 2018
On July 20, 2013, NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this image of the West Mullan fire burning in western Montana.
Published Jul 22, 2013
Heat from New Mexico’s Silver fire produced a towering pyrocumulus cloud on June 12, 2013.
Published Jun 14, 2013
The dense smoke shown in this image may be the greatest risk posed by the ightning-ignited Lateral West fire burning in southern Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp.
Published Aug 9, 2011
