Satellite View Of California Fires Today

These fires already amplified by a warming.

Satellite view of california fires today.

Track storms hurricanes and wildfires. 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. There are two major types of current fire information. Latest updates on san francisco bay area fires and wildfires burning across northern california and evacuation orders.

Zoom into recent high resolution maps of property. Interactive map showing acres burned and containment of fires including glass. For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data. Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.

Fire perimeter and hot spot data. The video below shows a satellite image loop revealing the rapid expansion of several large new fires that broke out across california over the weekend including the creek fire in fresno county. They show the smoke drifting from oregon heading south into california and through the san francisco bay area over a two day period starting on sept. California recently experienced 12 000 lightning strikes resulting in 560 new fires.

These data are used to make highly accurate perimeter maps for firefighters and other emergency personnel but are generally updated only once every 12 hours. The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values. The noaa also shared thursday s view of. 19 a surge in carbon emissions from california was the highest in the 18 year satellite record of reliable wildfire emissions monitoring.

The fires were reported on.