Recent satellite and aerial imagery reveal california blanketed in dense smoke as fires ignite mountains chaparral and desert regions.
Today smoke today satellite view of california fires.
The following resources provide information on active fires including wildfire acreage date of origin percentage of fire contained and related health and smoke advisories.
21 2020 shows the dense smoke now covering much of california.
Smoke from the bobcat and el dorado fires burning in southern california continues to blanket the region prompting the south coast air quality management district to issue its 10th straight day.
The kincade fire is the largest of several blazes that were ignited amid a string of strong california windstorms leading this week to the third major fire weather event in barely 10 days.
Cal fire current fires in california.
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A natural color image of the czu lightening complex fires near santa cruz california taken on aug.
They show the smoke drifting from oregon heading south into california and through the san francisco bay area over a two day period starting on sept.
Fire perimeter and hot spot data.
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Fire perimeter data are generally collected by a combination of aerial sensors and on the ground information.
Smoke clouds and trails created by wildfires were visible in satellite images of california over the period of august 18 19.
19 2020 wildfires moving across northern california with enormous smoke plumes smothering cities and towns in the san joaquin valley and san.
Active fires on federal lands.
Cal fire reported almost 11 000 lightning strikes had occurred across the state the few days.
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For low cost sensor data a correction equation is also applied to mitigate bias in the sensor data.
This nasa earth observatory photo shows on aug.
The fire and smoke map shows fine particulate 2 5 micron pm 2 5 pollution data obtained from air quality monitors and sensors information is shown on both the epa s air quality index scale using the nowcast aqi algorithm and also as hourly pm 2 5 concentration values.
Several large wildfires were burning in the state at the time the largest of which was the scu lightning complex which was estimated to have spread to 85 000 acres on august 19.