Oak Fire in California

GOES-17 True Color RGB images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
GOES-18 images shown in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational
GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the Oak Fire smoke plume as it spread northwestward across California on 24 July 2022. The Oak Fire has become the largest wildfire of California’s 2022 season.
Overlapping 1-minute GOES-18 Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second imagery — “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images are shown below.
GOES-18 Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]

GOES-17 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm, top left), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm, top right), Fire Power (bottom left) and Fire Temperature (bottom right) images [click to play animated GIF | MP4]