An explosion followed by a large fire occurred at the Chevron El Segundo refinery near Los Angeles (media story) around 0430 UTC on 03 October 2025 (9:30 PM PDT on 02 October). A thermal signature of the fire was evident in 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Near-Infrared and Shortwave Infrared images... Read More

Driven by a dry summer, numerous fires have been ignited in the Pacific northwest of the United States and far southwestern Canada. These fires were largely ignited by lightning from late summer storms, but continued drying in the area has both increased susceptibility to fire while also preventing rain from... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Clean Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images combined with the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that the Dollar Lake Fire in western Wyoming produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud as it was experiencing very active fire behavior (growing in size from 1300 to 5000 acres) in... Read More

5-minute PACUS sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Clean Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images and Red Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product (above) showed that the Bronco Fire in southeast Arizona produced a pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud as it was experiencing very active to extreme fire behavior... Read More