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Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires

Fires burning in boreal forests created hazy skies across North America in summer 2025.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Widespread Smoke from Canadian Fires.

NASA Earth Observatory video by Lauren Dauphin, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published August 5, 2025
Data acquired July 30 - August 3, 2025

Source:: Model