Forest Fires Satellite Images California

So far this year fires have scorched more than 3 3 million acres statewide an area larger than the state of connecticut.

Forest fires satellite images california. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. 15 show fires in the u s. Nasa satellites have obtained new images of the california wildfires illustrating the immense scale of the blazes. Cnn new satellite images show the smoke from wildfires that s drifted 600 miles into the pacific ocean and made california s air quality plummet to very unhealthy and hazardous levels.

The fires have continued to spread due to the fierce dry santa ana winds. A loop of satellite imagery created by penn state s department of meteorology provides a close up view of california from space over the course of the last 15 hours revealing the extent of the. That fire was started by lightning last month. Maxar technologies released on tuesday satellite images collected at a steep angle of the clouds billowing off the roaring fire.

The national interagency fire center reports that 12 large uncontained fires have burned over 335 000 acres in southern california. The space agency has been monitoring the situation in california where fires are still ablaze across the golden state. The mammoth scale of california s record firestorm speaks to that trend. Satellite images have shown the united states covered in thousands of wildfires burning across multiple states as a californian city is blanketed in an apocalyptic orange haze.

Wildfires are affecting numerous states across the us with out of control wildfires wreaking havoc in california for weeks. Zoom earth shows live weather satellite images updated in near real time and the best high resolution aerial views of the earth in a fast zoomable map.