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Two decades of satellite data show that the most destructive U.S. fires burn in grasslands and shrublands fanned by strong winds.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison and Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Animation by Adam Silcott (Navteca) and adapted by Michala Garrison (NASA Earth Observatory), based on wind data from HRRR, fire data from VIIRS, and burn severity data from USGS. The Camp Fire and Pacific Coast smoke images were first published in 2018 and 2020. Photograph courtesy of the National Weather Service. Story by Adam Voiland.
Published December 12, 2024 Data acquired March 6 - 7, 2017