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Fire Grows Unusually Large in Japan

Following a record dry month, a fire near Ofunato spread to become the country’s largest in decades.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Fire Grows Unusually Large in Japan.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published March 3, 2025
Data acquired March 1, 2025

Source:: Terra > MODIS