Satellite Pictures Of Forest Fires In Bc

A satellite image shows the smoke from fires in british columbia drifting across alberta and saskatchewan on aug.

Satellite pictures of forest fires in bc.

This summer hundreds of forest fires burning across bc have blanketed large areas of the province in smoke and triggered numerous air quality warnings. Nasa nasa s aqua satellite captured this image of earth sept. These two images show a forest fire next to a lake. This true color image shows the smoke on the afternoon of august 19.

The fires are marked with tiny red dots on the left side of the image. Explore recent images of storms wildfires property and more. The image on the right shows the same area but this time the red and green in the picture are actually shortwave infrared and blue remains blue. The links below list all current wildfires over 0 01 hectares in british columbia including wildfires of note.

As british columbia currently remains under a state of emergency released satellite images from nasa show the severity of the growing forest fires from a different perspective. Forest fires burning in the mountains of british columbia canada threatened air quality hundreds of kilometers away in mid august 2010. West smoke from those fires drifting eat and several hurricanes including sally on the gulf coast. 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.

15 show fires in the u s. All wildfires includes all wildfires that have occurred in a particular fire centre this year while active wildfires lists only those fires currently being actioned. This map contains live feed sources for us current wildfire locations and perimeters viirs and modis hot spots wildfire conditions red flag warnings and wildfire potential each of these layers provides insight into where a fire is located its intensity and the surrounding areas susceptibility to wildfire. 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.

See how the orange fires become visible through the smoke.