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Researchers also found that human-ignited fires tripled the length of the wildfire season.
Published Mar 7, 2017
A cloudless summer day afforded a perfectly clear view of several large fires burning in central Oregon on August 25, 2010.
Published Aug 27, 2010
Research shows that very similar boreal landscapes produce very different types of fires.
Published Feb 4, 2015
Smoke hangs over central Oregon in this image of widespread lightning fires on August 27.
Published Aug 29, 2011
Several lightning-triggered fires were burning near the Tanana River, southwest of Fairbanks, Alaska, on July 7, 2009.
Published Jul 9, 2009
Analyzing subtle differences in near-infrared and shortwave-infrared light from the landscape, scientists can provide some measure of the severity of wildfire burns.
Published Oct 14, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
Scientists have answered some important questions about how fires vary around the world and are changing over time.
Published Aug 21, 2019
The satellite-based atlas includes information about more than 13 million fires.
Published Aug 8, 2019
In 2015, wildfires in Alaska consumed an area nearly the size of New Jersey.
Published Sep 4, 2015
Acquired September 27, 2009, this true-color image shows wildfires continuing to burn in Oregon. Near the fires, smoke heads north-northwest but turns sharply toward the southwest near Eugene, Oregon.
Published Sep 29, 2009
The map shows average yearly counts of lightning flashes per square kilometer, based on data collected by NASA satellites between 1995 and 2002.
Published Jun 23, 2006
