Fires in USA

Fires in USA

14 August 2007

Zaca Wildfire, Southern California

North of Santa Barbara, California, the Zaca Fire continued to rage though the Los Padres National Forest on Sunday,12 August 2007. Started by lightning on 4 July, the fire died back in mid-July, only to roar back to life late in the month. As of12 August, the National Interagency Fire Center estimated the fire was about 84,000 acres and 68 percentcontained.

TERRA
12 August 2007

This image of the Zaca Fire was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on Sunday, 12 August, at 12:15 p.m. local time (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time). Thick smoke blows nearly duenorth, and MODIS detected several actively burning areas, which are outlined in red. The chaparral landscape of Southern California appears dullgreenish-brown, while irrigated croplands in the San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield are lushgreen.

The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters perpixel.

Fires in Montana and Idaho

Dozens of large fires were raging across the Northern Rockies in Idaho and Montana in mid-August 2007. This image of the area was captured on Sunday,12 August, at 2:55 p.m. U.S. Mountain Daylight Time by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. Dozens of fires (marked in red) were billowing out clouds of gray-brown smoke that spread across both states. Fires appeared especially active in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness area south of the Salmon River.

AQUA
12 August 2007

According to the 12 August report from the National Interagency Fire Center, 31 large fires were burning more than 753,000 acres in the twostates, and activity was predicted to increase in the coming days as sustained winds of 15-20 miles per hour were predicted to race across the Great Basin and NorthernRockies.

The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters perpixel.

(source: EarthObservatory)

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