Pacific Northwest Wildfires Satellite Imagery

While derived from operational satellites the data products and imagery available on this website are intended for informational purposes only.
Pacific northwest wildfires satellite imagery. The suomi npp satellite s visible infrared imaging radiometer suite viirs instrument captured a look at the smoke obscuring much of the pacific northwest on september 05 2017. No current fuels and fire behavior advisories for the northwest current northwest fire situation daily updates. Striking satellite imagery shows how the fires are. A large fire as defined by the national wildland coordinating group is any wildland fire in timber 100 acres or greater and 300 acres or greater in grasslands rangelands or has an incident management team assigned to it.
This combination of. Pacus full disk pacific northwest pacific southwest u s. This type of cloud feature was originally identified in tiros v imagery over the pacific ocean in 1962 and was featured in the first monthly weather review picture of the month series in january. The northwest fire location map displays active fire incidents within oregon and washington.
Imagery and loops on this site are intended for informational purposes only they are not considered operational. In satellite imagery they look like distinct leaf like or spokes on a wheel patterns that stand out from the rest of the low lying cloud field. This web site should not be used to support operational observation forecasting emergency or disaster mitigation operations either public or private. Hot dry conditions in the summertime make wildfires likely to plague the pacific northwest and california.
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Wildfires rage across pacific northwest. Current weather satellite imagery maps for pacific northwest and usa. Large fire map displays active large fire incidents within oregon and. Pacific northwest images updated every 5 minutes.
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