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Explosive Fires in Northern California

Blazes that started on a few hundred acres around Napa Valley were fanned by strong northeasterly winds into more than 100,000 acres of burned land in just two days.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Story by Mike Carlowicz.

Published October 10, 2017
Data acquired October 9, 2017

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Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS
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MODIS Image of the Day
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