Satellites Show a Decline in Fire in the U.S. Southeast

Among the byproducts of the pandemic and social distancing is a drop in forest management fires on federal lands.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Satellites Show a Decline in Fire in the U.S. Southeast.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Benjamin Poulter, Morgan Varner, Jessica McCarty, Amber Soja, and James Crawford.

Published May 18, 2020
Data acquired April 1, 2012 - April 30, 2020