A large fire was burning on Melville Island north of mainland Australia on October 4, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead.
Published Oct 4, 2006
On June 17, 2013, NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the Carstens fire burning southwest of California’s Yosemite National Park.
Published Jun 19, 2013
Thick smoke poured from a large fire burning outside Athens, Greece, when this image was taken on August 22, 2009.
Published Aug 25, 2009
This image from June 9, 2011, shows Arizona’s Wallow Fire in the White Mountains near the border with New Mexico.
Published Jun 10, 2011
The fire continues to grow, with less than a tenth of it contained.
Published May 3, 2017
In western Iceland in late March 2006, a large fire broke out in the grasses of a wetland area, which had been dried out by a period of persistent north winds. The fire burned somewhere around 67 square kilometers, the largest fire recorded since the island was settled in the 9th century.
Published Apr 5, 2006
Roughly one-third of the savanna woodlands on these islands burn each year.
Published Jun 21, 2017
The Assayii Lake fire is burning on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico.
Published Jun 17, 2014
A narrow but dense plume of smoke rises from the Lockheed Fire southwest of San Jose, California, and slices across the mouth of Monterey Bay, stretching past the city of Santa Cruz toward Monterey in this photo-like image taken on August 13, 2009.
Published Aug 15, 2009
This pair of images shows the vast extent of the Wallow Fire, burning in eastern Arizona, on June 6, 2011.
Published Jun 6, 2011
An expansive, destructive wildfire north of Los Angeles is visible from space by day and night.
Published Jun 28, 2016
The Terra satellite captured an image of a wildfire blazing in central Washington on July 27, 2013.
Published Jul 29, 2013
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