Tag: Wildfires
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Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
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NASA’s PACE Mission Studies Smoke, Fires
With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite’s three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their…
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Fighting Fire With Fire
In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia’s Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.
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NASA-Funded Study Shows Wildfire Smoke’s Hidden Ozone Toll
Over the last decade, wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone pollution across much of the contiguous United States, creating unhealthy air far from active flames.
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Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the Channel Islands.
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Fire Chars Santa Rosa Island
The blaze spread across the southern side of the second-largest island in California’s Channel Islands National Park.
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Fires Rage in Georgia
Firefighters are battling two destructive blazes in the southern part of the state as drought grips the U.S. Southeast.
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New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE
NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock, to explore unique views of our home planet’s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.
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Fires Tear Through Nebraska Grasslands
Dry, warm, and windy conditions across the U.S. Great Plains led to extreme fire activity in March 2026.