Fires across the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley
![](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2022/02/sp_swir-20220303_205617.png)
GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), Fire Temperature RGB. Fire Power, Fire Temperature and Fire Area products [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
Even though the majority of these fires were relatively brief and rather small in areal coverage, many produced notable smoke plumes — which were highlighted by GOES-16 True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (below). This smoke reduced the surface visibility to 7-9 miles at a few locations, but one site in southern Missouri reported a visibility as low as 3/4 mile.
![](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/images/2022/02/GOES-16_ABI_RadC_true_color_2022062_230117Z.png)
GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]