Landsat helps direct restoration efforts in at-risk areas.
Image of the Day Heat Land Fires
A wildfire in Fresno County, California has burned more than 28,000 acres.
Land Fires
At 369 square miles in size, the Rim Fire is the largest in the United States in 2013.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Dust and Haze Fires
The Whitewater-Baldy wildfire is the largest on record in New Mexico.
Fires
A NASA project is providing maps of satellite data to emergency response teams during the Woolsey Fire.
Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence
As wildfires wind down, teams of scientists hit the field to assess the damage. In many cases, they have help from satellites.
Image of the Day Land Fires Unique Imagery
Gray-brown charred land left in the fire’s wake blends with the gray granite peaks and shadowed valleys that make up the central Sierra Mountains.
Image of the Day Land Fires
Taken on May 2, 2100, this image shows land burned in the large Rockhouse Fire in southwestern Texas.
Only 10 percent contained, Arizona’s Wallow Fire became the largest fire in the state history on June 13 when this image was taken.
The 2012 wildfire season has proven to be one of the most aggressive in the last decade.
Though the Wallow Fire in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona is not yet fully out, the time to assess and recover has already begun via satellite imagery.
Astronauts captured this view of smoke billowing from the Fontenelle Fire in Wyoming three days after it began.
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