Aqua MODIS true color imagery (above) revealed a long smoke plume originating from a large wildfire that was burning northwest of Los Angeles on 03 December 2006 (500-meter resolution image). Strong northeasterly Santa Ana winds (gusting... Read More
The large (40,000 acre or 63 square mile)Â “Esperanza wildfire” started during the early morning hours on 26 October 2006 in a portion of the San Bernardino National Forest near Banning, California (west of Palm Springs);... Read More
The large (74,000-acre) “Day Wildfire” was still burning in the Los Padre National Forest just northwest of Los Angeles on 17 September — the MODIS true-color image (above) shows the thick plumes of smoke drifting westward. Strong offshore winds helped the fire (which had been... Read More
A large (208,000 acre) wildfire continued to burn near Derby Mountain in southwestern Montana on 12 September. A QuickTime animation of the 3.9 micrometer shortwave IR imagery from GOES-11, GOES-12, and GOES-13 (above) shows the “hot spots” associated with this fire — on the... Read More
