1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images (above) showed the development of pyrocumulus clouds and and a dense smoke plume associated with the Iron Fire in northern Utah (south of Salt Lake City) on 20 June 2026. At the beginning of the animation, a widespread veil of... Read More
On the afternoon of 11 June, 2026, a fire broke out at a medical supply warehouse in Tracy, California, in the central part of the state. The fire quickly consumed the nearly million square foot facility. While our weather satellites are frequently used to identify and monitor wildfires, they can... Read More
10-minute Full Disk scan Visible, Shortwave Infrared and Infrared Window images from GOES-18 (GOES-West) and GOES-16 (above) showed a wildfire in Canada’s Northwest Territories that produced multiple pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds late in the day on 23 May 2026. Each of the pyroCb clouds exhibited slightly warmer signatures (darker... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-19 (GOES-East) Visible images (with/without an overlay of the FDCA Fire Mask derived product) and Shortwave Infrared images (above) showed the thermal anomaly associated with a fast-moving grass fire (the Sharpe Fire) that moved northeastward across the Oklahoma border into Baca County in far southeastern Colorado on 17 May 2026 —... Read More
