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The first 4 days of the Los Angeles area wildfires

By Scott Bachmeier •

1-minute GOES-18 Fire Temperature RGB images, from 1810 UTC on 7th January to 2359 UTC on 10th January [click to play MP4 animation]

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Fire Temperature RGB images — created using Geo2Grid (above) depicted thermal signatures from several Los Angeles area wildfires from 7th January to 10th January 2025. Most notable were the 2 larger signatures from the initial Palisades Fire (near the coast, which started at 1824 UTC on 7th January) and later the Eaton Fire (farther inland, to the northeast) — with a few smaller and more short-lived fire signatures (such as from the Hurst Fire, Sunset Fire and Kenneth Fire) also seen during that 4-day period. The bright yellow pixels highlighted the hottest portion of the fires. Passing clouds occasionally masked or partially obscured the thermal signatures of some fires.

1-minute GOES-18 True Color RGB images from the CSPP GeoSphere site during the daytime hours on 7th-10th January (below) displayed pronounced smoke plumes from the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire during those 4 days (along with lesser smoke plumes from smaller fires).

1-minute GOES-18 True Color RGB images during the daytime hours on 7th-10th January [click to play MP4 animation]

Categories: Fire detection, Geo2Grid, GOES-18, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images