The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
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Hazardous fire conditions led to widespread, large fires in Queensland, Australia in mid-November.
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Smoke drifts over the aquamarine waters off northern Australia in this true color image taken on July 30 as the winter fire season gets underway.
Fire is ubiquitous, both a tool and a destructive force. Like plants, fire grows and wanes in seasons.
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A grass fire burning in Australia’s Northern Territory charred an area as large as Massachusetts in October 2014.
This true-color image shows a large fire burning on the western coast of Scotland.
Numerous fires clouded the skies of southern Queensland with smoke on September 26, 2011.
Though fires are larger and more frequent at the end of the dry season, several fires burned in Western Australia and Northern Territory in April 2015.
The beginning of the dry season also brings the beginning of the burning season to fire-prone savannas and grasslands.
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Temperature, humidity, and winds contributed to the rapid spread of fire in Lake County, about 100 miles northwest of Sacramento.
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The reality of science, statistics, and satellites is that a deep understanding of the causes, effects, and severity of a fire season takes time.
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