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Indonesian Fires Return in 2023

Dry conditions brought on by El Niño likely intensified the 2023 fire season, following several years of relative quiet.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Indonesian Fires Return in 2023.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published October 6, 2023
Data acquired August 7, 2022 - October 2, 2023