Satellite View Of California Fires Live
A natural color image of the czu lightening complex fires near santa cruz california taken on aug.
Satellite view of california fires live. 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. 5 of 9 satellite image 2020. Vast plumes of thick smoke can be seen blowing out over the pacific ocean. 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 kincade fire is the largest of several blazes that were ignited amid a string of strong california windstorms leading this week to the third major fire weather event in barely 10 days. 21 2020 shows the dense smoke now covering much of california. Fire activity is denoted with red pixels. Fire perimeter and hot spot data.
To view the most complete information about a specific potential fire select all satellite data available. There are two major types of current fire information. Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information. These new nasa satellite images of the wildfires show the area between los angeles and san diego california.
The first image was captured by nasa s terra satellite at 2 25 p m.