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Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Kumar, Sujay, et al. (2022) and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 3, 2022
Data acquired 2019 - 2020

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS