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Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) is a free web mapping platform offered by NASA as part of its Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program. It displays active fire locations in near real-time overlaid on a map.
Forecasters warned Monday that the fire weather conditions would be severe enough to rival those experienced during recent destructive fires – a dire prediction playing out in real time Tuesday ...
The Jennings Creek Wildfire continues to rage in New Jersey and New York Wednesday morning, extending firefighting efforts into a sixth day.. As of Wednesday morning, the most recent update from ...
Wildfire smoke map: Track fires and ref flag warnings across the US. Active fires in New Mexico. Penn Scott Fire: Unknown. South Fork Fire: 20 acres. Antone Fire : 12,396 acres.
Largest wildfire by acreage of 1997–2007 time period. 2006: 40,200 acres (16,300 ha) Esperanza Fire: California: Arson-caused wildfire that killed 5 firefighters and destroyed 34 homes and 20 outbuildings. 2006: 160,000 acres (65,000 ha) Day Fire: California: 1 residence burned, no casualties. 2007: 564,450 acres (228,420 ha)
As the fire burned in all directions, it burned structures in the community of Michigan Bluff. [13] The next day, September 8, saw the single largest day of growth on the Mosquito Fire. The fire was mapped by FIRIS (the Fire Integrated Real-time Intelligence System, using aircraft with infrared sensors) at 13,705 acres (5,546 ha). [15]
A wildfire in Malibu, California, has exploded to more than 2,000 acres, prompting evacuations. Pepperdine University students sheltered in place for six hours.
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...