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Wildfires Still Scarring Land Around Fort McMurray

More than two weeks since wildfires first broke out in Fort McMurray, the burned area continues to grow larger as fires still spread under warm, dry conditions.


NASA image (top) by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. NASA Earth Observatory image (bottom) by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 17, 2016
Data acquired May 12 - 16, 2016

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Suomi NPP > VIIRS