Cal'Fired
The Stouts fire, burning near Milo, Oregon, had charred another 20,000 acres. The photograph below, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center, shows a firefighting helicopter near a smoke plume on the morning of July 31, 2015. Nearly 1,500 firefighters have been battling the Stouts fire.
Summer usually brings hot, dry weather and elevated wildfire risk to the western United States. Summer 2015 was no exception. As of August 6, outbreaks of large wildfires had charred more than 6 million acres, nearly two million more than the ten-year average through early August.
While 80 percent of the burned area is the result of massive fires in remote forests in Alaska, large blazes also have emerged in Oregon, Washington, and northern California. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite collected this image of wildfires burning in Oregon and California on August 5, 2015. Red outlines indicate hot spots where the sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Thick plumes of smoke drifted from the hot spots.
The most destructive blaze in California, the Rocky fire, had burned about 69,000 acres (28,000 hectares, or 107 square miles) in Lake, Yolo, and Colusa counties as of August 6. While only a faint burn scar and light smoke is visible in the MODIS image, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite got a more revealing view with a false-color image (below) of the fire on August 3, 2015.
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