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Timelapse satellite video taken from space shows the rapid expansion of the California wildfires, offering a harrowing look at how quickly the blazes exploded over the last two days amid powerful ...
The fires are still burning, and satellite imagery from Wednesday showed the scale of the fires in Altadena. The National Weather Service called the windstorm "life-threatening and destructive."
False-color satellite image of the Palisades, Hurst, and Eaton fires, taken 8 January 2025 at 21:40 GMT As of January 9, there are five notable fires burning throughout the region. The extreme intensity of the windstorm coupled with dry vegetation due to prolonged drought conditions caused fires to spread rapidly, and caused embers to fly and ...
Read more:Southern California wildfires: Maps, evacuations, shelters The Bridge fire, the largest of the four , was nearing 50,000 acres in size Wednesday afternoon, and was 0% contained. It began ...
The 2020 California wildfire season, part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season, was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] more than four percent of the state's roughly 100 million acres of land, making 2020 the largest wildfire ...
False-color view of the burned area and smoke from the Park Fire in Northern California, viewed from the Landsat 9 satellite on July 27, 2024. By the end of spring (June 20), the total area burned by wildfires in California was nearly 90,000 acres (36,000 ha).
The extent of damage could even be seen from space, as shown in the satellite imagery below from a Noaa satellite. The fire began amid a Santa Ana wind event, in which gusts reaching 50-70 mph ...
The Glass Fire was a wildfire in Northern California, that started on September 27, 2020, at 3:48 AM from an undetermined cause and was active for 23 days. [2] It was part of the 2020 California Wildfires and the 2020 Western United States wildfire season .